Conclusion
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General |
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don't know about the graphics cards from the other manufacturers as we
don't have all of them on hand but we have to say that this one from
EVGA is not bad at all. Though it uses the reference design (PCB &
Cooler), EVGA did some changes that make the difference. First of all
you get a nice factory overclocking, then they made the power design a
bit stronger and changed the design of the cover of the reference cooler
to make it more efficient and push better the hot air outside the case.
Furthermore the card comes with twice the amount of video memory. |
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- Noiseless in
2D
- Almost noiseless in load
3D
- Factory Overclocking +146 MHz
- Warranty
- Low Profile |
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| Performance |
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| Thanks to the factory overclocking, the GTX
650 Ti SuperSuperClocked was on average 7 % faster than the reference GTX 650
Ti.
This is enough to compete against the Radeon HD 6870, the reference card
on the other hand can compete with the Radeon HD 6850. And this kind of
performance has been achieved with at a power consumption max of only
148 Watts - for our
entire test setup - under heavy 3D Load (FurMark) which is very very
demanding when it comes to power consumption. In idle the power
consumption is standard with 65 Watts measured for the entire setup. By
the way, it's no mentioned into any results tables but I did load the
card using FurMark for an hour and I almost didn't hear the graphics
card at all, it is extremely silent. During this burn test the max temp
achieved by the GPU was only 60 °C. |
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- Performance
- 7 % faster than the
reference GTX 650 Ti
- As fast as the HD 6870 |
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Recommendation |
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| So in the end this GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC SuperSuperClocked graphics
card from EVGA is better than the reference one with a factory
overclocking and a better cooling system than the reference
PCB design. For the price of 141 € (exc. VAT), the SSC is 22 € more
expensive than the reference design, which makes it very interesting
considering the performance and the extra amount of memory over the
reference design. But to be honest the GTX 650 Ti itself isn't that
attractive, yes it is faster by 10-15 % than the Radeon HD 7770 which was
the goal for this card but the price is too high. Indeed AMD reacted and
you can now find the Radeon HD 7850 1 GB for around 150 € (VAT incl.), a
graphics card that is about 20 to 25 % faster. |
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- Budget Gaming |
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We gave the EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC SuperSuperClocked the best
4.5 out
of five stars. |
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Author: Christian Ney
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