NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTHitman: Absolution
The third game in our lineup is Hitman: Absolution. The latest game in Square Enix’s stealth-action series, Hitman: Absolution is a DirectX 11 based title that though a bit heavy on the CPU, can give most GPUs a run for their money. Furthermore it has a built-in benchmark, which gives it a level of standardization that fewer and fewer benchmarks possess.
Hitman is another game that sees the GTX 650 Ti Boost struggle compared to AMD’s cards, and also another game to have NVIDIA’s relative performance drop as the game’s quality settings are reduced. The GTX 650 Ti Boost is fast enough to hit 50fps at High settings, still trailing the 7850 by 10%. But if we want to get above 60fps we have to drop to Medium, at which point performance is closer to the 7790 than it is the 7850.
Meanwhile compared to the GTX 650 Ti and GTX 660, this is about as normal of a game as we’ll see. The GTX 650 Ti Boost greatly benefits from the additional ROP/memory resources compared to the GTX 650 Ti, pushing performance ahead by 30%, but lacking that 5th SMX it will still trail the GTX 660 by 14% or so. Most games are shader/texture/geometry bound to the point that the GTX 660, while close to the GTX 650 Ti Boost, will never really be threatened.
Looking at our minimum framerates, the relative rankings are a bit more in NVIDIA’s favor. The GTX 650 Ti Boost still trails in the same spots, but not by as much as was the case with the average framerates.
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Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Any specific reason as to why the 1gb wasn't used?Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
In addition, the 7790 will have 2gb cards as well so I'm just confused overall.DanNeely - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Probably because nVidia only sent a 2GB sample. I assume once retail cards are available a 1GB model will be tested too.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Of course they didn't send the 1GB model. It's absolutely completely positively ridiculous. It has no business existing.shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
They say why in the article. I think I'd read it before commenting.lol
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I guess I don't see where that's in the article. Can you comment on the paragraph?shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
"Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition."Second page, very middle.
HighTech4US - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
From page 2 (clear as day, if you just bothered to read)Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition.
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Thanks for clearing that up. I will have to wait to see if the 2gb is a paper launch.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
2GB 650 TiB launches this week. It will be 1G that will come later.