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Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

by Tarinder Sandhu on 9 October 2012, 14:00 3.5

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Overclocking

There's no fun in a graphics-card review without trying to blow the GPU up overclock it. There's no GPU Boost to worry about, so overclocking is a matter of increasing the available voltage for the GPU - 1.153V, in this case - and raising clocks. GPU-Z wouldn't correctly identify the overclock but we can confirm the sample card was running at 1,175MHz core and 6,550MHz memory: that's a significant uptick from the shipping 925/5,400MHz clocks.

Increasing speeds leads to performance that's around 25 per cent better than a bone-stock card, but such is the architecture disparity between GTX 660 and GTX 650 Ti, that no manner of overclocking is ever going to match the faster card's scores. This, remember, is a card that retails for not that much more than Ā£100.

Reiterating the oft-used proviso that your overclocking mileage will vary, NVIDIA's AICs should be releasing cards with the core/shader running at 1,000MHz-plus, one would think.