Report: Nvidia Preps GK107-Based GTX 650 Card

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By Wolfgang Gruener
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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.

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14 Comments Comment from the forums
  • amuffin
    That card is supposed to be around 560ti-570 performance :)

    Essentially a beefed up 550ti that is worth the $150!
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  • bustapr
    amuffinThat card is supposed to be around 560ti-570 performance 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.
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  • tomfreak
    I think it is closer to a 460 SE than 560ti. it is a GK107 chip, noway it will be 70-80% the speed of GK104(GTX660Ti/GTX580).
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  • dudewitbow
    im expecting it personally to perform near a normal 560 as well. it just makes more sense to me if nvidia is going to almost go 100$ at each price point

    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.
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  • icemunk
    Better late than never
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  • 11796pcs
    AMD has had their cards out for forever now, any non-biased buyer who simply wanted a graphics card would most likely have already bought an AMD card. Doesn't Nvidia lose a ton of money by waiting so long to release the rest of their cards? By the time they finish releasing all of them, AMD will have a new generation of faster cards!
    Reply
  • DryCreamer
    at least from what I've seen based on the benchmarks, I'd be disappointed in the GT640's performance if I had to pay anything over $90... :/

    Dry
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  • esrever
    The 650 would have a hard time beating the 7770. Probably just slightly faster than the 7750 with the current specs...
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  • delaro
    I think its more to the line of replacing the 450 GTS, 550 TI as a budget gamer card. I would expect the price to be around $120 with MIR's for around $88 as was the 450 GTS when it was released.
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  • hannibal
    11796pcsAMD has had their cards out for forever now, any non-biased buyer who simply wanted a graphics card would most likely have already bought an AMD card. Doesn't Nvidia lose a ton of money by waiting so long to release the rest of their cards? By the time they finish releasing all of them, AMD will have a new generation of faster cards!
    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!
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