Report: Nvidia Preps GK107-Based GTX 650 Card
Nvidia is reportedly putting the finishing touches on its GTX 650 graphics card. Based on a GK107 chip, the card is rumored to be released on September 17.
The 550 Ti may soon be replaced.
According to Turkish site Donanim Haber, the GTX 650 is positioned above the GT 640, with which it shares the GK107 chip with 384 active processing cores and 1.3 billion transistors. the GK107 is only about 40 percent as large as the GK104 (1,344 cores) that is used, for example, in the previously introduced GTX 670. Pricewise, expect the GTX 650 to find its place much closer to the $100 GT 640 than to the $400 GTX 670. A $120 to $150 range is expected.
The GTX 650 is said to arrive with 1 GB GDDR5 memory, 1 GHz core clock and will become available a little late for the back-to-school season. However, a slight graphics card upgrade may not be on many school supply shopping lists anyway.
Essentially a beefed up 550ti that is worth the $150!
the 560ti is still at around 180-190. if this is around the performance of a 560ti and a 570, it is VERY doubtful itll be anywhere near the 150 price point. itd be around post 200 price point and the 560ti would drop(I say this considering that new gen clones of cards are always more expensive than their previous versions, and usually more efficient.)
I suspect this will be closer to a regular 560.
100$ 640
160-180 (albeit not 200, its not gk 104) 650
300 660ti
400 670
500 680
then nvidia can safely say that it tried to get a gpu at each price point.
Dry
It is actually not so simple. This card is in the market 5-6 monts before AMD next generation card. So anyone who simply want a graphic card will buy it before 8000 series is out...
But yeah, Nvidia 28nm cards have been late this time, but it does not mean that there will not be customers to them, if they are any good!
gtx 680 - $500
gtx 670 - $400
gtx 660 Ti - $300
gtx 660 - $200
gtx 650 - $150
and so on...
Overview:
GTX 650 (2012) is the successor to gtx 550 ti (2011) and will easily beat amd radeon hd 7770 GE when it comes to performance...
currently 7770 g3d score sits at 2058...where as previous gen gtx 550 ti scores a little low at 1886...definitely gtx 650 will be much powerful than gtx 550 ti eventually beating the competition w.r.t. performance...
price point seems to be around $150 upon release replacing gtx 550 ti @ $150
but nvidia is just too late considering the fact that amd launched mid range & entry level gpu's a few months ago
* a must buy gpu for budget oriented consumers