GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 650

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 650, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1058 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1250 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 384 SPUs, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
GeForce GTX 650		2263 points
	Difference: 10096 (446%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
	Difference: 56 Watts (88%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 146% quicker than the GeForce GTX 650 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 116608 (146%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (about 256%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86624 (256%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 is quite a bit (approximately 327%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 650, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 55360 (327%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.