NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 's Advantages
Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+197%
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 650
0.812 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GTX 960
+302%
189
GeForce GTX 650
47
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 960
+253%
46
GeForce GTX 650
13
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Sep 2012
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
80.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
384
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.464 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.86 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
812.5 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.86 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
65W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GK107
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
118 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
