Reviews: NVidia GTX 650Ti Three Way Roundup

[Ninjalane]

In this review we will be looking at the last and final Kepler based GPU to be released in 2012 the GTX 650 Ti. 650 Ti is designed to bring "Ti" style performance to the GTX 650 family by using a GK106 GPU (used for the GTX 660) with 768 CUDA cores enabled and a 925Mhz Base Clock.



http://www.ninjalane.com/Reviews/Video/gtx-650ti_roundup

[nilkilla]

Great review(only an editing issue, on the graphs the Gigabyte card is labelled GTX 650ti Three Way Roundup)

It does make me wonder what would be the least expensive kepler card to use for dedicated PhysX. I haven't found anything to make the 680 stutter, but I'm still curious if there isn't some way to figure if going to even a 650 or lower wouldn't save a few bucks and arrive at the same performance as the 650 ti for dedicated PhysX.

[Redmax]

The issue with the charts is a limitation of the CMS I designed. The system wasn't ever designed to handle more than one product in the same article and by default it takes the title of the review and uses that the primary listing in the charts. For this review I had two choices. 1) create 4 articles and link them together (that is what I normally do with the motherboard reviews, I just don't have to create them all at once) or 2) Create a single article and deal with the chart limitation.

You can see which one I went with.

As for your question about dedicated PhysX it really doesn't matter what GPU you pick as any modern nVidia GPU will do a great job at the calculations. For instance in the review I used a GTX 560 and the GTX 650Ti. I didn't post the score but running full res the two offered the same framerate, almost identical in fact. The only major difference was power draw.

So, knowing this you could go with the normal GTX 650 and likely still get the same performance you would with a 650Ti or even 660Ti.

I believe SiSoft has a benchmark to test PhysX performance, I'll have to fire it up and maybe do up a big chart with the results. It may be moot since PhysX in games still isn't all that demanding.