AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points
16% slightly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
13 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
6 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points
61% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

10718 points
216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
144% significantly lower TDP
110 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
7% slightly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
7% slightly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
768
49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
64
100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586
327th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 8 beats the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 Ti at 110 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon Vega 8 is better than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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