GeForce GTX 650 Ti vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Oct 2012
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    192%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    186%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 7950 Boost

86% higher gaming performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

The Radeon HD 7950 Boost is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 TiRadeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-220-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders768vs1792
Compute Units4vs28
Core clock928 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 TiRadeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650 TiRadeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP110 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date9 Oct 2012vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    14.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    59.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    86.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    1425.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    4750
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    9130

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    21
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    34

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    25
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    53

FPS (higher is better)