nVidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review

Published by Christian Ney on 26.03.13
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Technical Data / Specifications


You might be expecting this, with the nVidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost you get a reference card with reference clocks, a reference PCB and a reference cooler. The ASIC quality measured on our sample was 71.6 %.
About ASIC quality:



Looking at clock speeds we see the GTX 650 Ti Boost is sharing the same frequencies as its great sister the GTX 660. Therefore the GPU runs at 980 MHz with a typical boost of 1'033 MHz and the GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective).
The card also features nVidia's Boost 2.0 technology. In our case when the GPU temperature was below 50°C the card was clocking itself up to 1'084 MHz. Above 50°C the GPU clock went down to 1'071 MHz and above 70°C to 1'058 MHz.



nVidia GeForce GTX 660 GTX 650 Ti Boost GTX 650 Ti GTX 650
Chip GK106 GK106 GK106 GK107
Process 28 nm 28 nm 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.54 Billion 2.54 billion 2.54 Billion 1.30 Billion
GPU clock 980 MHz 980 MHz 925 MHz 1'058 MHz
GPU Boost clock 1'033 MHz 1'033 MHz N/A N/A
Memory 2'048 MB GDDR5 2'048 MB GDDR5 2'048/1'024 MB GDDR5 1'024 MB GDDR5
Memory clock 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz) 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz) 1'350 MHz (5'400 MHz) 1'250 MHz (5'000 MHz)
Memory interface 192 Bit 192 Bit 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory bandwidth 144'200 MB/s 144'200 MB/s 86'400 MB/s 80'000 MB/s
TMUs 80 64 64 32
Shader Cores 960 (5 SMX) 768 (4 SMX) 768 (4 SMX) 384 (2 SMX)
ROPs 24 ROP 16 ROP 16 ROP 16 ROP
Maximum board power 140 Watt 140 Watt 110 Watt 64 Watt
PCB Type Reference Design Reference Design Reference Design Reference Design
PCB size short short PCIe16x PCIe16x
Cooler Reference Design Reference Design Reference Design Reference Design
MSRP $229 $169 $149 $109


Something else this GTX 650 Ti Boost shares with the GTX 660 is the PCB. When you take a closer look at the PCB you see that it's identical. Therefore you get an analogue power design with five phases, where the GPU gets four phases and the memory gets one phase.
The voltage regulation chip used for the GPU power stage is a NCP5395G from ON Semiconductor. On the memory power stage you find an APL1117 from ANPEC.



This graphics card even features the same cooler you find on the GTX 660 reference cards. It comes with an aluminium fin stack and a copper base. The whole thing is cooled by a radial/blower-type fan.



The memory chips used are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4G20325FD-FC03. They are specified to run at 1'500 MHz (6'000 MHz effective).




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Page 2 - Technical Data / Specifications Page 14 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - Preview Page 15 - Max Payne 3
Page 4 - Test Setup Page 16 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 5 - 3DMark 11 Page 17 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 6 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 18 - The Witcher 2
Page 7 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 19 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - BattleField 3 Page 20 - Fan Speed / Noise Level
Page 9 - Borderlands 2 Page 21 - Temps - Idle / FurMark / BF3
Page 10 - Bioshock Infinite Page 22 - Performance/Price & Performance/Watt
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