Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti can't be expected to deliver ample performance beyond 1920x1080, and cards in this class aren't fast enough to accelerate the highest detail settings with anti-aliasing cranked up. So, we're running today's tests at high quality settings without anti-aliasing, and then again again with the feature turned on. In many cases, we're forced to drop the quality preset in order to realize playable frame rates with anti-aliasing turned on.
We're including Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 and 660 to evaluate the performance of Kepler-based cards on either side of the GTX 650 Ti in the company's line-up. We're also testing the GeForce GTX 460 192-bit, factoring in the capabilities of a previous-generation card. As a point of reference, our GeForce GTX 460 is very similar to a GeForce GTX 560 SE, in case you have one of those sitting around. A GeForce GTX 560 is in there, too, to represent the $170 card you could have purchased before Kepler-based boards started invading the same space.
AMD's Radeon HD 7770 stands in as the company's low-end contender. The Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 are previous-gen boards selling between $150 and $170. They're still available, and therefore still relevant to our analysis of which card to buy.
Finally, AMD recently introduced a 1 GB Radeon HD 7850, which sells for about $180. We've seen the card as low as $165 without rebates, though, so we're inclined to include it as potent competition in the same price range.
| Test System | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E), 3.3 GHz, Six Cores, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3 Cache, Hyper-Threading enabled, Overclocked to 4.2 GHz | |||||||
| Motherboard | ASRock X79 Extreme9 (LGA 2011) Chipset: Intel X79 Express | |||||||
| Networking | On-Board Gigabit LAN controller | |||||||
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance LP PC3-16000, 4 x 4 GB, 1600 MT/s, CL 8-8-8-24-2T | |||||||
| Graphics | Zotac GeForce GTX 650 Ti AMP! Edition 1033 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1550 MHz Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC 1033 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1350 MHz Reference GeForce GTX 650 Ti 925 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1350 MHz Reference GeForce GTX 660 980/1033 MHz Base/Boost GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1502 MHz MSI GeForce GTX 560 810 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1002 MHz Zotac GeForce GTX 460 192-bit 675 MHz GPU, 768 MB GDDR5 at 900 MHz Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 1111 MHz GPU, 2 GB GDDR5 at 1250 MHz EVGA R7850 Core Edition, Radeon HD 7850 1GB 860 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1200 MHz Reference Radeon HD 6870 900 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1050 MHz Reference Radeon HD 6850 775 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1000 MHz Reference Radeon HD 7770 1000 MHz GPU, 1 GB GDDR5 at 1125 MHz All overclocked cards reduced to reference specification for testing | |||||||
| Hard Drive | Samsung 470-Series 256 GB (SSD) | |||||||
| Power | ePower EP-1200E10-T2 1200 W ATX12V, EPS12V | |||||||
| Software and Drivers | ||||||||
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 x64, Service Pack 1 | |||||||
| DirectX | DirectX 11 | |||||||
| Graphics Drivers | Nvidia: 306.38 beta AMD: Catalyst 12.9 Beta | |||||||
| Benchmarks | ||||||||
| Battlefield 3 | Campaign Mode, "Operation Swordfish" 60-second Fraps | |||||||
| Crysis 2 | DirectX 11, 60 second Fraps | |||||||
| Batman: Arkham City | Version 1.0.0.0, Built-in DirectX 11 Benchmark | |||||||
| Metro 2033 | Full Game, Built-In Benchmark, "Frontline" Scene | |||||||
| DiRT Showdown | Version 1.0.0.0, DirectX 11 Benchmark | |||||||
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | Update 1.4.27, THG Benchmarks save, 25-second Fraps | |||||||
| Max Payne 3 | Version 1.0.0.4.7, Chapter 3, save 16, 65-second Fraps | |||||||
| World Of Warcraft | DX 11, Elwynn Forest area, 30-second Fraps | |||||||
- GeForce GTX 650 Ti: The Last Kepler-Based Card For 2012
- Zotac GeForce GTX 650 Ti AMP! Edition
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti (GV-N65TOC-2GI)
- Test Setup And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Batman: Arkham City
- Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3
- Benchmark Results: Crysis 2
- Benchmark Results: DiRT Showdown
- Benchmark Results: Max Payne 3
- Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
- Benchmark Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Benchmark Results: World Of Warcraft
- Overclocking
- OpenCL: GPGPU Benchmarks
- OpenCL: GPGPU Benchmarks (Basemark CL)
- OpenCL: Image Processing (Basemark CL)
- OpenCL: Video Processing (Basemark CL)
- Temperature And Noise
- GeForce GTX 650 Ti: A Good Value At $150
That looks like a fail to me, and don't even get me started on how late this is.
This means we will easily see $150 or less after rebates and officially makes this Nvidia 650ti product a total fail. I see no reason to purchase this.
Seriously, such a waste of silicon that could perform quite a bit better if you just gave it a little more breathing room....
That looks like a fail to me, and don't even get me started on how late this is.
Seriously, such a waste of silicon that could perform quite a bit better if you just gave it a little more breathing room....
With 128bit bus, they could have just leave the memory speed @ 6GHz. 5400 is pretty much ruin the thing.
Edit: btw, this is probably one of the most useful review I see for a while. 6870/6850/560/460/7770 are all there, with benchmark of AA on and off. thumbs up for u author!
The HD7850 and GTX 650ti are essentially the same price on New Egg.
slightly too weak for a dedicated in my book.
I said my book as in my opinion.
Because comparing cards in the ~150 dollar range to a card thats +280 dollars is asinine?
This means we will easily see $150 or less after rebates and officially makes this Nvidia 650ti product a total fail. I see no reason to purchase this.
Not if you seriously would like to know what the performance difference was. Look at the current Video Card ratings - they cover from very low to extreme high - because people would like to know.
So - Right now, I'm looking at buying a $300 660 Ti, but if the 650 Ti can come within 20% of the performance, I might not drop the extra cash on it. But without trying to find a common benchmark between the two, there's no way to tell. Looks like I get to go benchmark hunting.
Nvidia are doing stupid thing here
I used this as the 660ti review to compare benchmarks against for the games : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-ti-benchmark-review,3279.html
The 660 non-Ti has a roughly 50% lead on average over the 650 Ti. This 650 Ti obviously doesn't come anywhere near the 660 Ti. You shouldn't need the 660 Ti in this to know that.
so they won't be as late as this gen because they had to collect enough bad chips
Outside of gaming, such as some stress tests, they might be able to reach their TDP.
Some of the highly factory overclocked 7770s would be considerably faster than this 650 Ti while still being cheaper