GeForce GT 650M vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GT 650M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GT 650M
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 650M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    812%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 650M

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 712% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 650MGeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGK107 (N13P-GT-A2)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units2vs10
Core clock850 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 650MGeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 650MGeForce GTX 1060
TDP45 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 650M
    6.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 650M
    27.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 650M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 650M
    652.80 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 650M
    2140
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380

Points (higher is better)