GeForce GTX 650 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 240 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 650

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameGK106 ()vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs320
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock1058 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP65 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date27 Nov 2013vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better