GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU NameGK106 ()vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders384vs1600
Compute Units2vs20
Core clock1058 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
TDP65 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2013vs14 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better