NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 86.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (110W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +175%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

1.425 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970 +381%

77

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

16

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

86.40GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

64

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.85 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.39 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1425 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

110W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GK106-220-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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