NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Final thoughts and rating

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Going by our benchmarks, performance, too, falls betwixt the Radeons', and it is sharp enough to enable most of the latest games to be played at high-quality settings at the desired full-HD, 1,920x1,080 resolution.

The release of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card is a not-so-veiled attempt at filling a part of the stack that it hasn't been fiercely competitive in since the GeForce GTX 460 768MB days. This new GeForce, based on a fundamentally cutdown version of the £170 GTX 660, now occupies the space between arch-rival AMD's Radeon HD 7770 and HD 7850 GPUs.

Going by our benchmarks, performance, too, falls betwixt the Radeons', and it is sharp enough to enable most of the latest games to be played at high-quality settings at the desired full-HD, 1,920x1,080 resolution. Add to this the usual roster of GeForce GTX 600-series features - including multi-monitor support - and taking the low noise, power and temps into consideration, it's hard to argue against the GTX 650 Ti being a well-rounded card.

But if it was our cash on the line and we had to make a decision on the best GPU upgrade for around the £120 mark we'd veer towards recommending a more-powerful Radeon HD 7850, whose 1GB variant starts off at a little more.

All said and done, GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB is a welcome additional to the mid-range graphics-card ranks of 2012, and its arrival lowers the price of a proper gaming card from NVIDIA's gamer-orientated Kepler architecture.

The Good

Solid performance at 1080p resolution, given the price
Includes NVIDIA Kepler's non-3D features
Cool, quiet, and energy efficient
Overclocks well

The Bad

Competitor Radeon HD 7850 is a faster gaming card
Substandard GPGPU performance
No SLI ability

HEXUS rating

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

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Well it's great if you are interested in size, temp, power and noise. Performance is not great except in those traditionally Nvidia favoured games.

Overclocking is very effective, but is starting from quite a low level.

Looks good for a small SFF PC. It seems to half way between an HD7770 and HD7850 1GB,but the recent price-cuts on the HD7850,means for another £15 to £20 you can get a better overall card.

Jeez, cant believe they didn't bring this in at sub £100.

pricing on this generation of cards has been a complete clusterfxxx, from top to bottom.

Sub £100 is a bit wishful, that would place it head to head with the 7770 which it is comfortably better than. Starting at £110 would place it more fairly between the 7770 and 7850.

Current pricing means you really have to want the non-performance benefits of size, temp, power and noise.