Test Setup And Benchmarks
According to Nvidia, its GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is best-suited to native 1920x1080 displays, so that's where we'll test it. If you aspire to game across multiple monitors, we recommend saving up for a higher-end graphics card with a more potent GPU and wider memory bus.
AMD's Radeon HD 7850 is this card's primary competition. Its results will be the ones we reference most often. We're also testing the GeForce GTX 650 Ti and GeForce GTX 660 to see how the 650 Ti Boost compares to the rest of Nvidia's GK106-based boards. Finally, the older Radeon HD 6870 and GeForce GTX 560 show us how Nvidia's latest effort stands up to previous-generation sub-$200 graphics cards.
Test System | |
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CPU | Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E), 3.3 GHz/3.9 GHz Max Turbo, Six Cores, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3 Cache, Hyper-Threading enabled. |
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 | GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 560 1 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2 GB GDDR5GeForce GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7850 1 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 6870 1 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7790 1 GB GDDR5Radeon HD 7870 2 GB GDDR5 |
Hard Drive | Samsung 470-series 256 GB (SSD) |
Power | ePower EP-1200E10-T2 1,200 W ATX12V, EPS12V |
Software and Drivers | |
Operating System | Microsoft Windows 8 |
DirectX | DirectX 11.1 |
Graphics Drivers | AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 2Nvidia GeForce 314.21 BetaRadeon HD 7790 Catalyst Beta Driver |
Benchmarks | |
Borderlands 2 | v.1.0.28.697606, Custom Benchmark, 60-second Fraps run |
Crysis 3 | v.1.0.0.1, Custom Benchmark, 60-second Fraps run |
F1 2012 | v.1.3.3.0, Included Benchmark, 60-second Fraps run |
Far Cry 3 | v.1.0.0.1, Custom Benchmark, 50-second Fraps run |
Tomb Raider | v.1.0.722.3, Custom Benchmark, 45-second Fraps run |