GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 8.65% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost sales 26 March 2013 at a recommended price of $169 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Kepler architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.0 GB/s are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 144.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-width card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9.5" (24.1 cm). One 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 134 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 460 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.98 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK106 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 26 March 2013 (11 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $169 | |
| Current price | $285 (1.7x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 768 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 768 | |
| Core clock speed | 980 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1033 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,540 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 134 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 97 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 62.7 billion/sec | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,585 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 9.5" (24.1 cm) | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | One 6-pin | |
| SLI options | + |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 6.0 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 144.2 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort | |
| Multi monitor support | 4 Displays | |
| HDMI | + | |
| HDCP | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal |
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| 3D Blu-Ray | + | |
| 3D Gaming | + | |
| 3D Vision | + | |
| 3D Vision Live | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 9%
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
Octane Render OctaneBench
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
Benchmark coverage: 4%
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is Radeon RX 560X, which is slower by 5% and lower by 9 positions in our ranking.
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