GeForce GTX 570 vs GeForce GTX 650

GeForce GTX 570
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Dec 2010
GeForce GTX 570
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 650
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 570

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

154 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 570 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 570

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 570

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-275-A1)vsGK107 (GK107-450-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders480vs384
Compute Units15vs2
Core clock732 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs40vs16
TMUs60vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 570GeForce GTX 650
TDP219 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date7 Dec 2010vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    22.00 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 570
    43.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 570
    152.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 570
    1405.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better