GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon HD 8670 OEM

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8670 OEM

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650
    104%
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8670 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 8670 OEM
GPU NameGK106 ()vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs6
Core clock1058 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 8670 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon HD 8670 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2013vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650
    2880
  • Radeon HD 8670 OEM
    2760

Points (higher is better)