NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTCivilization V
Our final game, Civilization V, 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.
Civilization V is an interesting game due to the fact that it puts the 7790, GTX 650 Ti Boost, and 7850 so close together in performance. It stresses just about everything at some point – tessellation/geometry, ROP throughput, compute, and texturing – but it’s really shading/texturing that form the biggest bottleneck here. This works out well enough for NVIIDA, allowing them to get within 4% of the 7850, while still keeping the GTX 650 Ti Boost and GTX 660 well separated.
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Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Any specific reason as to why the 1gb wasn't used?Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
In addition, the 7790 will have 2gb cards as well so I'm just confused overall.DanNeely - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Probably because nVidia only sent a 2GB sample. I assume once retail cards are available a 1GB model will be tested too.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Of course they didn't send the 1GB model. It's absolutely completely positively ridiculous. It has no business existing.shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
They say why in the article. I think I'd read it before commenting.lol
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I guess I don't see where that's in the article. Can you comment on the paragraph?shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
"Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition."Second page, very middle.
HighTech4US - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
From page 2 (clear as day, if you just bothered to read)Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition.
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Thanks for clearing that up. I will have to wait to see if the 2gb is a paper launch.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
2GB 650 TiB launches this week. It will be 1G that will come later.