NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
With Sleeping Dogs we once again have to drop to normal AA to get above 60fps, which is a simple FXAA mode with no SSAA. The GTX 650 Ti Boost can’t catch the 7850 here, but it can get close, within 5%. Meanwhile we know from history that this game has a lot going on shader-wise, so it’s no great surprise that the gains relative to the GTX 650 Ti aren’t quite as great here as they are elsewhere, with the GTX 650 Ti Boost improving by 25%.
Minimum framerates are not in NVIDIA’s favor here. While the GTX 650 Ti Boost can approach the 7850 on average, at the most demanding points in the game performance drops to something a lot closer to the 7790.
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Oxford Guy - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Hopefully only to be laughed out of the market.xdesire - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Nvidia's last struggles with Kepler gen. :)Eugene86 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
So this card beats out the slightly cheaper new 7790 in every game as well as the slightly more expensive 7850 in half of the games?Looks like a pretty good deal to me. What reason do people have to buy AMD again?
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I think the only game it won was in Shogun and bf3? I'm not sure on your statement or if you read the article or not.Eugene86 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Did you read the article? Because the only games (one game) that the nvidia card lost in is Dirt.aTonyAtlaw - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I think you were looking at the GTX 660, friend. The 650 Ti Boost, the card under review, placed beneath the 7850 in nearly every test. They even talk about this on the conclusions page.Eugene86 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I was talking about the 7790, that's why.Warren21 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
The comment you were replying to was challenging your statement of the 650 TiB beating the 7850 in "half". Two does not constitute half, it constitutes two.just4U - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - link
Well Eugene, looking at your original statement you seem to be saying it beats the 7790 and the 7850.. (you added in the "as well as.." ) Anyway, no clue how the 2G 7790 does or how the 1G 650TIB does.. so it's all sorta moot. On paper if you ask me the 650 is the better card overall.EzioAs - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Bundled games? HD7850 uses less power and overclocks better? AMD cuts the price of their cards way more resulting in better performance per dollar cards before Nvidia actually release one that could fight back?It's true the GTX650ti Boost does seem pretty good for a newly released card in terms of performance per dollar but your question just shows a little bit "fanboyism".