NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTSleeping Dogs
Another Square Enix game, Sleeping Dogs is one of the few open world games to be released with any kind of benchmark, giving us a unique opportunity to benchmark an open world game. Like most console ports, Sleeping Dogs’ base assets are not extremely demanding, but it makes up for it with its interesting anti-aliasing implementation, a mix of FXAA and SSAA that at its highest settings does an impeccable job of removing jaggies. However by effectively rendering the game world multiple times over, it can also require a very powerful video card to drive these high AA modes.
With Sleeping Dogs we once again have to drop to normal AA to get above 60fps, which is a simple FXAA mode with no SSAA. The GTX 650 Ti Boost can’t catch the 7850 here, but it can get close, within 5%. Meanwhile we know from history that this game has a lot going on shader-wise, so it’s no great surprise that the gains relative to the GTX 650 Ti aren’t quite as great here as they are elsewhere, with the GTX 650 Ti Boost improving by 25%.
Minimum framerates are not in NVIDIA’s favor here. While the GTX 650 Ti Boost can approach the 7850 on average, at the most demanding points in the game performance drops to something a lot closer to the 7790.
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Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Any specific reason as to why the 1gb wasn't used?Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
In addition, the 7790 will have 2gb cards as well so I'm just confused overall.DanNeely - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Probably because nVidia only sent a 2GB sample. I assume once retail cards are available a 1GB model will be tested too.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Of course they didn't send the 1GB model. It's absolutely completely positively ridiculous. It has no business existing.shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
They say why in the article. I think I'd read it before commenting.lol
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
I guess I don't see where that's in the article. Can you comment on the paragraph?shandy706 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
"Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition."Second page, very middle.
HighTech4US - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
From page 2 (clear as day, if you just bothered to read)Please note that the GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA is sampling is the 2GB card. We’ll take a look at 1GB cards later once those arrive, since they were a late addition.
Zstream - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
Thanks for clearing that up. I will have to wait to see if the 2gb is a paper launch.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
2GB 650 TiB launches this week. It will be 1G that will come later.