The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is loosely based on Unreal Engine 3, while the DirectX 11 functionality was apparently developed in-house. With the addition of these features Batman is far more a GPU demanding game than its predecessor was, particularly with tessellation cranked up to high.

With Batman the GTX 650 Ti finally makes some significant progress into cutting into the lead of the 7850. At 1680 leads by just 7%, which translates into 6fps and half the earlier spread we established. At these settings we’re not using MSAA, so if nothing else the 7850 does not get to utilize its typical memory bandwidth and ROP throughput advantages. That becomes especially evident at 1920, which otherwise drives a large wedge in between the two cards.

Meanwhile our factory overclocked cards don’t just close the 7850 gap, but for the first time push past it. At 90fps the Zotac GTX 650 Ti AMP is just fast enough to surpass the 7850, an important accomplishment not just for the GTX 650 Ti in general, but for validating the more expensive factory overclocked cards.