We didn’t have a chance to try out a reference card, but we got something a bit better instead, EVGA’s GTX 650 Ti Boost Superclocked. Both cards ship with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. However, the Boost card shares some features with the GTX 660 as well, namely the 192-bit memory bus and 24 ROPs. The GTX 650 Ti Boost features 64 texture units, while the GTX 660 has 80. One SMX module on the GTX 650 Ti and GTX 650 Ti Boost is disabled, so they end up with fewer cores. The GTX 650 Ti, GTX 650 Ti Boost feature 768 CUDA processors, while the GTX 660 has 960. The basic design of Nvidia’s GTX 650 Ti, GTX 650 Ti Boost and GTX 660 revolves around GK106 silicon. In fact, thanks to the new bus and speedier memory chips, the new card has 66 percent more bandwidth compared to the plain GTX 650 Ti. Luckily Nvidia had a few other tricks up its sleeve, so it widened the 128-bit memory bus to 192 bits, greatly improving bandwidth on the new card. GPU Boost allows the card to boost GPU clocks depending on load and temperature.Ī simple clock boost with no additional changes would not have ensured the new Boost card a significant performance edge over the GTX 650 Ti. It is also worth noting that AMD introduced another mid-range card at about the same time, and that’s what it usually takes to get Nvidia’s tail wiggling.Īs the name suggests, the GTX 650 Ti Boost features Nvidia’s GPU Boost technology, which was not employed on the plain GTX 650 Ti. Nvidia apparently thought there is enough of a performance and price gap between the GTX 650 Ti and GTX 660, so it went ahead and developed the GTX 650 Ti Boost, which should plug the gap nicely.
Review: Good performance at a tempting price
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