NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1058 MHz vs 400 MHz
10.6x more texture fill rate: 33.9 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
25.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1749 vs 69
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 368 vs 178

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 November 2013 vs 22 July 2003
Core clock speed	1058 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.9 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1749 vs 69
PassMark - G2D Mark	368 vs 178

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

170x more memory clock speed: 850 MHz vs 5.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	850 MHz vs 5.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1749

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

368

178

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
PassMark - G3D Mark	1749	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	368	178
Geekbench - OpenCL	4493
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.582
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	364.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.254
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.386
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	23.499
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3478
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3332
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2663
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3478
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3332
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	545

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Rankine
Code name	GK106	NV35
Launch date	27 November 2013	22 July 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$109	$203
Place in performance rating	1003	1000
Price now	$144.81	$166.60
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Value for money (0-100)	16.05	0.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	1058 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	384
Floating-point performance	812.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	33.9 billion / sec	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	64 Watt
Transistor count	2,540 million	135 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini..., 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.38" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	5.70" (14.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128-bit GDDR5	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5.0 GB/s	850 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
TXAA