NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 384 vs 240
  • Around 5% better floating-point performance: 652.8 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4.2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 189 Watt
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 80
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 11 November 2008
Pipelines 384 vs 240
Floating-point performance 652.8 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 189 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 vs 80

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1210 vs 1202
  • 4.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18229 vs 3802
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3319 vs 1913
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3319 vs 1913
Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1210 vs 1202
Geekbench - OpenCL 18229 vs 3802
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3319 vs 1913
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3319 vs 1913

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1202
1210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
239
80
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3802
18229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
3319
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1913
3319
Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
PassMark - G3D Mark 1202 1210
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 80
Geekbench - OpenCL 3802 18229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 9.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 340.824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 23.111
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1913 3319
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2283
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3299
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1913 3319
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 414

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla 2.0
Code name GK107 GT200B
Launch date 22 March 2012 11 November 2008
Place in performance rating 1188 1240
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $3,499
Price now $178.89
Value for money (0-100) 8.02

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 652.8 gflops 622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 240
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 189 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 1,400 million
Core clock speed 610 MHz
Texture fill rate 48.8 GTexel / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Memory bus width 128bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type DDR3\GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Memory bandwidth 102.4 GB / s

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus