The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
by Ryan Smith on October 9, 2012 9:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Our final game, Civilization 5, gives us an interesting look at things that other RTSes cannot match, with a much weaker focus on shading in the game world, and a much greater focus on creating the geometry needed to bring such a world to life. In doing so it uses a slew of DirectX 11 technologies, including tessellation for said geometry, driver command lists for reducing CPU overhead, and compute shaders for on-the-fly texture decompression.
Just as how the GTX 650 Ti went into these game benchmarks behind the competition, so will it leave. At 1680 the 7850 enjoys a massive 46% lead, similar to the massive lead it had at the start with Crysis. Interestingly that lead greatly diminishes at 1920 where it becomes 28%, but that’s still more than twice the 13% price spread.
Looking to our factory overclocked cards, the EVGA card comes out on top if only by a hair, indicating that the GTX 650 Ti’s biggest bottleneck at the moment is either shader or ROP throughput.
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AbbieHoffman - Sunday, October 27, 2013 - link
Can't we all just get along?I have to admit I am a AMD fan. If it was not for AMD we would not have any competition with Intel, And we would still be paying $2,000-$3,000 grand for computers. I have a Diamond ATI 5850 which I loved. For the last 3 years it has played every game I purchased. Well one day it went out on me. (I did abuse it however) Anyway I got me a used PNY 9800 GTX+ to use untill I could buy a new card. I was impressed by the old 9800 GTX+ It was performing very well almost as good as the 5850. After that I had respect for Nvidia cards. When the time came to buy my new card I looked up 7700s from AMD and the 650-660 from Nvidia. Well the best performance for price I found was the MSI 650 TI, It was at a lower price than the AMD cards. I got the card for $114 and a $25 rebate, So $98 bucks was the final price. That was a deal I could not pass up. I am also very pleased with the 650ti's performance.
The system the card is in (below)
MSI-P55-GD65
i5 750
8GB Gskill Ripjaw 1600