NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTTotal War: Shogun 2
Our next benchmark is Shogun 2, which is a continuing favorite to our benchmark suite. Total War: Shogun 2 is the latest installment of the long-running Total War series of turn based strategy games, and alongside Civilization V is notable for just how many units it can put on a screen at once. Even 2 years after its release it’s still a very punishing game at its highest settings due to the amount of shading and memory those units require.
Shogun at Ultra quality has been favoring our NVIDIA cards as of late. As a result the GTX 650 Ti Boost becomes the cheapest card to cross the 30fps threshold at these Ultra settings. Though at the more meaningful very high quality settings, we get something that’s more an archetypical outcome for these cards, with the GTX 650 Ti Boost in close pursuit of the 7850 and clearly ahead of the 7790. This is a shader bound game, so compared to the vanilla GTX 650 Ti, the boost variant picks up some performance, but it’s still not enough to even halve the gap to the GTX 660.
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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".