Report: Nvidia Working on a Faster GeForce GTX 650 Ti
Reportedly Nvidia might be working on a revamped GTX 650 Ti in order to compete with AMDs upcoming HD 7790
A couple days ago we showed you AMD's new Radeon HD 7790, and this might have given Nvidia a bit of a shock due to the card's competitive performance and low price of just £118, Nvidia may be revising the GeForce 6TX 650 Ti to better complete with AMD.
What this revision will actually entail is still unknown, but we are told that it will not involve any changes to the card's 768 CUDA cores, 5.4 GHz memory clock or 128-bit memory clock. With no change to the die's physical specifications, we can speculate that it will involve an increase to the 650 Ti current clock speed of 928 Mhz.
The revised GeForce 650 Ti is expected to release in late March / early April and is likely to retain its current price point. Since this news has not been confirmed by Nvidia, we can't guarantee the accuracy of this information.

You don't say it often, cause you hear it all the time!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. But seriously, this is another example of how competition is great. I just wish they would do this for the 660ti.
....or not.
You don't say it often, cause you hear it all the time!
Sorry, I couldn't resist. But seriously, this is another example of how competition is great. I just wish they would do this for the 660ti.
The same is true for the 660 Ti. It's GPU is so memory bandwidth bottle-necked that increasing its frequency a little own't make much difference whereas increasing memory performance does make a difference (the GTX 670 and 680 prove this quite excellently).
If Nvidia wanted a decent improvement in either card without changing the hardware, then the best option would be to make a new reference specification with better memory for the 650 Ti (and also the 660 Ti if they wanted a higher performing version of it). Unfortunately, except for the unlikely scenario where Nvidia would also require better memory binning as well, I find it unlikely that this would help the overclocking community in getting more card options in this price range.
A higher GPU frequency wouldn't hurt, I'm just saying that it won't make much difference on its own, at least not unless it's a very big change.
Not even 660ti has 256bit memory bus, so I wouldn't expect it from 650ti. A 192bit though would be nice but Nvidia said that they will not change any physical part
Though I desperately wanted this article to read: Report: Nvidia Working on a Cheaper GeForce GTX 660
EDIT - well lookee here, a cut-down GTX 660 for $150-170, and a price drop on the regular GTX 660!
Even at stock clocks, a 650 Ti with a 192 bit bus could easily compete with the 7790 and 7850 if priced similarly. It wouldn't be too much slower than the 660 at that point.