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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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".