NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
Hitman is another game that sees the GTX 650 Ti Boost struggle compared to AMD’s cards, and also another game to have NVIDIA’s relative performance drop as the game’s quality settings are reduced. The GTX 650 Ti Boost is fast enough to hit 50fps at High settings, still trailing the 7850 by 10%. But if we want to get above 60fps we have to drop to Medium, at which point performance is closer to the 7790 than it is the 7850.
Meanwhile compared to the GTX 650 Ti and GTX 660, this is about as normal of a game as we’ll see. The GTX 650 Ti Boost greatly benefits from the additional ROP/memory resources compared to the GTX 650 Ti, pushing performance ahead by 30%, but lacking that 5th SMX it will still trail the GTX 660 by 14% or so. Most games are shader/texture/geometry bound to the point that the GTX 660, while close to the GTX 650 Ti Boost, will never really be threatened.
Looking at our minimum framerates, the relative rankings are a bit more in NVIDIA’s favor. The GTX 650 Ti Boost still trails in the same spots, but not by as much as was the case with the average framerates.
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trajan2448 - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - link
Seems a little disingenuous to avoid comparisons to its direct competitor, the7790, which it handily beats and has better frame delivery times. It wasn't designed to go against the 7850, and you guys know that.FearfulSPARTAN - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - link
Nvidia seems to thinks so, cant remember the article but Nvidia said the gtx 650 ti boost beat the 7850 in several games, all of them just so happen to be nvidia optimized games though.Ryan Smith - Friday, March 29, 2013 - link
At $169 for the model we reviewed it sure is. It's the $149 1GB card that we need to look at if we want to make meaningful 7790 comparisons.marees - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - link
"the best card is going to be the card you can afford."The above conclusion should be revised as "the best card is going to be the card+power_supply+cooling_solution you can afford."
I would like a gddr5 card <=$200 which can play latest games at 1080p at the max settings allowed by budget. But I dont want to screw-up my entire pc due to wrong choice of Power Supply or Cooling system/case.
I am sure this has been discussed somewhere before, if not can Anand and his team create a bench / post article to analyse the playable settings of different gddr5 cards along with the additional investment required in terms of case & power supply, esp from a budget gamer point of view - a person for whom it is nice to be able to game, but actually uses the pc mostly for browsing facebook and doing office work.
rbfowler9lfc - Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - link
Why "Ti Boost"? GTX 660, 660Ti, 650, 650Ti and now 650TiB. So many suffixes, that's confusing for the average joe! Why not just plain GTX 655?!?MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - link
Agreed - this is totally ridiculous!They've already got up to 3 letters for prefixes (but always use the same GTX on any card half-interesting for actual 3D work), 100 different numbers in each generation, now an additional suffix "Ti". Yet that's still not enough, we need another suffix...
Based on performance these should be:
GT640 - GT640
GTX650 - GTX640
GTX650Ti - GTX650
GTX650Ti Boost - GTX655
Darbyothrill - Thursday, March 28, 2013 - link
This may very understandably not be a big consideration for many people, but this card appeals to me a great deal as I am interested in running a Steam Linux Box, and the AMD drivers are currently in an atrocious state for linux. I overall think the AMD cards are more compelling for the price right now, but this is a decently priced nVidia solution.vaibhav81 - Friday, April 12, 2013 - link
guys,I am going to build custom gaming pc. And I Have selected this card for my pc.Can you suggest me other compatible hardware requirement for this,e.g.MotherBoard,PSU,Processor,Case,monitor??lower price will be good.