GeForce GTX 650 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2070, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator 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 RTX 2070		22282 points
GeForce GTX 650		2263 points
	Difference: 20019 (885%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 650		64 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 111 Watts (173%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should theoretically be much better than the GeForce GTX 650 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 650		80000 MB/sec
	Difference: 378752 (473%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is much (more or less 500%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 650. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		33856 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 169184 (500%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is a lot (approximately 433%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 650, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 650		16928 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73312 (433%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.