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    GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs GeForce GTX 970

    GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 9 Oct 2012
    GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    GeForce GTX 970
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 19 Sep 2014
    GeForce GTX 970

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 970
      331%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 970

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 231% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 970

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970

    The GeForce GTX 970 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 650 TiGeForce GTX 970
    GPU NameGK106 (GK106-220-A1)vsGM204 (GM204-200-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size221 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors2,540 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders768vs1664
    Compute Units4vs13
    Core clock928 MHzvs1050 MHz
    ROPs16vs56
    TMUs64vs104

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 650 TiGeForce GTX 970
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1350 MHz
    5400 MHz effective    		vs1753 MHz
    7012 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 650 TiGeForce GTX 970
    TDP110 wattsvs148 watts
    Release Date9 Oct 2012vs19 Sep 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      14.80 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970
      58.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      59.40 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970
      109.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      86.40 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 970
      224.40 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      1425.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970
      3494.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
      4750
    • GeForce GTX 970
      15750

    Points (higher is better)

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