GeForce GTX 470 vs GeForce GTX 650
Summary
GeForce GTX 470
162%
GeForce GTX 650
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 470
The GeForce GTX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GF100 (GF100-275-A3) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,100 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 448 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 14 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 608 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 40 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 320 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 837 MHz
3348 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1280 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 470 | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 215 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 26 Mar 2010 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GTX 470
17.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
34.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
134.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
1089.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 470
4680
GeForce GTX 650
2880
Points (higher is better)