GeForce GTX 650 vs TITAN V

Place in the ranking	80	656
Place by popularity	not in top-100	74
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	1.23
Power efficiency	12.38	4.87
Architecture	Volta (2017−2020)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GV100	GK107
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 December 2017 (6 years ago)	6 September 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

TITAN V and GTX 650 have a nearly equal value for money.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	5120	384
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1058 MHz
Boost clock speed	1455 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	21,100 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	64 Watt
Texture fill rate	465.6	33.86
Floating-point processing power	14.9 TFLOPS	0.8125 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	16
TMUs	320	32
Tensor Cores	640	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	no data	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	147 mm
Height	no data	4.38" (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	3072 Bit	128-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed	848 MHz	5.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	651.3 GB/s	80.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini HDMI
Multi monitor support	no data	4 displays
HDMI	+	+
HDCP	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	Internal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray	-	+
3D Gaming	-	+
3D Vision	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.1.126
CUDA	7.0	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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.

TITAN V 44.40
+878%

GTX 650 4.54

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

TITAN V 17125
+879%

GTX 650 1750

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.

TITAN V 156591
+3386%

GTX 650 4492

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

TITAN V 150538
+3223%

GTX 650 4530

GeekBench 5 CUDA

TITAN V 179522
+5143%

GTX 650 3424

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

1440p	152 +986%	14−16 −986%
4K	82 +925%	8−9 −925%

Cost per frame, $

1440p	19.73	7.79
4K	36.57	13.63

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	44.40	4.54
Recency	7 December 2017	6 September 2012
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	64 Watt

TITAN V has a 878% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 650, on the other hand, has 290.6% lower power consumption.

The TITAN V is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 650 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.