this video is brought to you by CM Storm Preferred Choice of mice headsets and
mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www. coolermaster usa.com teamor
curse for more details welcome to the lonus tech tips video review of the GTX
650ti uh Booster Juice Ed boost Edition
excuse me boost Edition so I actually think that this shouldn't even be called
the GTX 650 TI because it is completely
different from the other one these similarities basically end at the fact
that they both use PCI Express 3.0 ports
they both need one PCI Express six pin
power connector and they both support like DVI monitors because that is pretty
much it the 650ti boost reference card
has a slightly longer PCB than the regular 650 TI you can see that right
there it also has the extension on here
for the exhaust fan so you can see it's using a much more similar style to the
other GTX 600 series cards with a rear exhaust that takes the heat out of your
case away from all the other components it also by reference according to the
reference design supports 3+ One display outputs whereas only non-reference GTX
650 TI supported that so you've got two
dvis an HDMI and a DisplayPort whereas this guy's only got two DVI and a mini
HDMI the cooler is much beefier it does
have an SLI finger so you can support two-way SLI on this card and the regular
650 TI could not it has a 192bit memory
bus compared to only 128 it is clocked at 6 GHz on the memory and it has a 980
MHz core frequency versus only 925 on
this card but the real trick is the fact
that it supports GPU boost so it will achieve a typical GPU boost of over 1
GHz around 1033 which makes it
significantly faster than this card but it also comes in at a significantly
higher price so it's targeting around 169 for the 2 gig model that's another
difference this is a 1 gig card natively but there will be a 1 gig model
following that's about $20 cheaper so
this is supposed to slot in in between
something like a 7770 or a 7790 we don't
have a 7790 yet but we'll be testing that soon and a 7850 in terms of price
point so we're going to have a look at how performance shakes down pretty soon
in terms of the physical size of it the reference card is 9 1/2 in long so you
shouldn't have any trouble fitting it in any kind of gaming oriented case
although it is not a small form factor Builder's dream like the regular 650 TI
which is only about 6 in long so that extra 3 in does make all the difference
in the world without further Ado we're going to move into our performance
numbers starting with Far Cry Oh no test bench test bench so we're running our
3960x at 4 gigz with 6 16 gigs of hyperx
RAM all the cards we ran we ran the 650 TI the 650 TI boost the 660 the 7770 the
7850 and the 7870 these are the cards uh
at at and around that same price point we used the vertex 4128 gig for our SSD
we have a an anch high current Pro
Platinum 1000 watt and we're using a P9 x79 Deluxe motherboard from ASUS now as
always all of our cards are overclocked if you want to see overclocking settings
you can check them out in the link in the video description you can see what
we're running at we're aiming for overclocks that you guys can easily
achieve with your cards at home so we're not pushing them to the absolute limit
in terms of drivers we're using the latest NVIDIA drivers so we have an unreleased driver for the NVIDIA cards
and we have AMD's 13.1 driver because uh
obviously we don't have an unreleased driver for the AMD cards because they're
all the ones we're testing are released so let's start with Far Cry 3 here we
see the 7870 and the 7850 topping the charts with the 660 coming in a little
bit below the 7850 pretty much the same it's within margin of error and then the
650ti Boost actually putting up a really
good showing and this backs up what I was saying about the 650 TI boost really
not actually being a 650 TI at all it is
closer to a 660 in terms of performance than it is to a 650 TI both the 650 TI
and the 7770 dropped enormously in terms of the
minimum frame rates in this game demonstrating that 1 gig of video memory
is not enough for modern gaming at 1080p
so I would only really suggest playing Far Cry 3 on either of those two cards
on a 1680 by 1050 monitor or lower in
Crisis 3 we see the same story except that the GTX 660 which is on the test
bench right now here wins this one but again within margin of error against the
7870 the 7850 put up a really good sh
only performing 10% worse than the 7870 with the 650 TI boost less than 10% away
from the 7850 in spite of the price
differential the 650 TI again just
choked in this game compared to the 650 TI boost performing about
65% as well as the 650 TI boost so you
are getting a lot of extra performance for that extra 40 bucks the 787 oh and
the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim we are running our sort of modded game with
about 18 mods so your performance may
vary in this game however we will be producing a benchmarking guide for this
game pretty soon so stay tuned for that our 7870 and 7850 did top the charts in
this one with our 660 and our 650ti
boost coming very close to each other only about 5% away from each other in
terms of performance with the 650ti and the 7770 bringing up the rear once again
as the less expensive cards this does make sense um in The Witcher 2 we're
running with Uber sampling and anti-aliasing disabled and the radon
cards do come out ahead bearing in mind of course that they are more expensive
with the 660 uh only leading the 650 TI
boost by about 10% and then the 7770 and
the 650 TI again bringing up the rear we're seeing uh some pretty good
consistency to the results here which uh means that NVIDIA has done a good job of
pricing the 650 TI boost um correctly
according to the rest of the market Market the 2 gigs of RAM to me is a huge
selling point compared to the recently released 7790 although we haven't tested
it yet so uh bear that in mind we will have a review of that coming soon and
we're going to include these numbers in there as well so in Metro 2033 the 7870
comes out on top followed by the 660 uh which is in a very tight pack with the
7850 and the 650 TI boost it's actually
pretty good to see how close the 650 TI
boost gets to the 7850 considering that there is a price differential there
making this one of the most cost effective 2 gig cards and actually
suitable for 1080p gaming because again in Metro 23 both our 7770 and our 650 TI
which are our 1 gig cards put up pretty decent average frame rates and maximum
frame rates but their minimum frame rates were less than half of the average
frame rates meaning they ran out of video memory buffer at some point during
our testing and absolutely choked in terms of performance so while this is a
review of the 650 TI boost I am looking at it as almost more of an examination
of how much memory we actually need for modern gaming so the two games Far Cry 3
and Metro 2033 that really choked on the one gig cards demonstrate that 2 gigs is
what we need for 1080p gaming however just because the card supports 3+ one in
NVIDIA surround with an auxiliary display doesn't mean you're going to be
playing any AAA current gen title
at 3x 1080p resolution you want to do something like that you got to step up
to a bigger card it's nice to see those features from a productivity standpoint
on the card but you know guys make sure
your expectations are realistic thank you for checking out this video review
of the 650 TI boost from NVIDIA don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for
unboxings reviews and other computer videos