NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 749.99

$ 98.48

$ 651.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11655 points

3960% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

282 FPS

275 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

137 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS

195 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points

3129% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points

9788% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

206390 points

5849% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

181771 points

3757% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

126138 points

2838% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points

3707% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points

3217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

10 GiB

400% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit

150% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s

850% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W

64 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s

1839% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s

1273% significantly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704

2166% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272

749% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

32nd of 599

393rd of 599

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce RTX 3080 vs GeForce GTX 650 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 650 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 3080 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 has significantly more memory with 10 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 has a significantly lower TDP at 64 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 at 320 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3080 is better than the GeForce GTX 650.