Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 650
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 470
1280 Mb GDDR5
Released 26 Mar 2010
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 650
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 27 Nov 2013
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 470162%
- GeForce GTX 650100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 470
- Around 62% higher average synthetic performance.
- Supports PhysX
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 650
- 150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 470 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the GeForce GTX 470
The GeForce GTX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | GeForce GTX 650 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 448 | 384 |
| Compute Units | 14 | 2 |
| Core clock | 608 MHz | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 40 | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | 32 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | GeForce GTX 650 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1280 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 470 | GeForce GTX 650 |
|---|
| TDP | 215 watts | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | 27 Nov 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47017.00 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 6508.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 47034.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 65033.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 470134.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 65080.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 4701089.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 650812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 4704680
- GeForce GTX 6502880
Points (higher is better)