NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
by Ryan Smith on March 26, 2013 8:00 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Our final action game of our benchmark suite is Battlefield 3, DICE’s 2011 multiplayer military shooter. Its ability to pose a significant challenge to GPUs has been dulled some by time and drivers, but it’s still a challenge if you want to hit the highest settings at the highest resolutions at the highest anti-aliasing levels. Furthermore while we can crack 60fps in single player mode, our rule of thumb here is that multiplayer framerates will dip to half our single player framerates, so hitting high framerates here may not be high enough.
Our rule of thumb here is that we have to hit 60fps on this benchmark to ensure we don’t bottom out below 30fps in multiplayer, so surprisingly Ultra quality with just FXAA is quite playable here. Kepler cards simply excel at Battlefield 3, making this the one game that the GTX 650 Ti Boost can beat the 7850 at, and quite handily too at nearly 15%. Even dropping the quality to Medium for better performance still doesn’t dent the GTX 650 Ti Boost’s lead here. Meanwhile BF3 is another game that makes good use of shading and texturing, so the Boost’s gains over the GTX 650 Ti are around 27% or so, while the GTX 660 is still ahead by a further 13%.
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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.