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this video is brought to you by CM storm preferred choice of mice headsets and mechanical keyboards of curse gaming visit www.samhsa.gov/dtac 650 TI booster juice it a boost edition excuse me boost Edition so I actually think that this shouldn't even be called the GTX 650 Ti because it is completely different from the other one these similarities basically end at the fact that they both use PCI Express 3.0 ports they both need one PCI Express 6 pin power connector and they both support like DVI monitors because that is pretty much it the 650 Ti boost reference card has a slightly longer PCB than the regular 650 Ti you can see that right there it also has the extension on here for the exhaust fan so you can see it's using a much more similar style to the other gtx 660 heat out of your case away from all the other components and also by reference according to the reference design supports 3 + 1 display outputs whereas only non reference GTX 650 T is supported that so you've got 2 DV is an HDMI and a DisplayPort whereas this guy's only got two DVI s and a mini HDMI the cooler is much beefier it does have an sli finger so you can support two-way SLI on this card and the regular 650 TI could not it has a 192 bit memory bus compared to only 128 it is clocked at 6 gigahertz on the memory and it has a 980 megahertz core frequency versus only 925 on this card but the real trick is the fact that it supports GPU boost so it will achieve a typical GPU boost of over 1 gigahertz around 1033 which makes it significantly faster than this card but it also comes in at a significantly higher price so it's targeting around 169 for the 2 gig model that's another difference this is a 1 gig card natively but there will be a 1 gig model following that's about 20 dollars cheaper so this is supposed to slot in in between something like a 77 70 or a 77 90 we don't have a 77 90 yet but we'll be testing that soon and a 78 50 in terms of price point so we're going to have a look at how performance shakes down pretty soon in terms of the physical size of it the reference card is nine and a half inches long so you shouldn't have any trouble fitting it in any kind of gaming oriented case although it is not a small form-factor builders dream like the regular 650 TI which is only about six inches long so that extra three inches does make all the difference in the world without further ado we're going to move into our performance numbers starting with farcry so no test bench test bench so we're running our thirty-nine 60 X at four gigahertz with 16 gigs of HyperX ram all the cards we ran we ran these 650 Ti the 650 Ti boost the 660 the 7770 the 7850 and the 7870 these are the cards at at our end around that same price point we use the vertex for 128 gig for our SSD we have a Anandtech high current Pro Platinum 1000 watt and we're using a p9 x79 deluxe motherboard from Asus now as always all of our cards are overclocked if you want to see our overclocking settings you can check them out in the link in the video description you can see what we're running out we're aiming for over clocks that you guys can easily achieve with your cards at home so we're not pushing them to the absolute limit in terms of drivers we're using the latest Nvidia drivers so we have an unreleased 2 driver for the Nvidia cards and we have AMD's 13.1 driver because obviously we don't have an unreleased driver for the AMD cards because they're all the ones we're testing are released so let's start with Far Cry 3 here we see the 7870 in the 7850 topping the charts with the 660 coming in a little bit below the 1750 pretty much the same as within margin of error and then the 650 Ti boost actually putting up a really good showing and this backs up what I was saying about the 650 Ti boost really not actually being a 650 Ti at all it is closer to a 660 in terms of performance than it is to a 650 Ti both the 650 Ti and the 70s 770 dropped enormous ly in terms of the minimum frame rates in this game demonstrating that one gig of video memory is not enough for modern gaming at 1080p so I would only really suggest playing Far Cry 3 on either of those 2 cards on a 1680 by 1050 monitor or lower in Crysis 3 we see the same story except that the gtx 660 which is on the test bench right now here wins this one but again within margin of error against the 7870 the 7850 put up a really good showing only performing 10% worse than the 7870 with the 650 Ti boost less than 10% away from the 7850 in spite of the price differential the 650 Ti again just choked in this game compared to the 650 ti boost performing about 65% as well as the 650 ti boost so you are getting a lot of extra performance for that extra 40 bucks the 78 700 in the elderscrolls v skyrim we are running our sort of modded game with about 18 mods so your performance may vary in this game however we will be producing a benchmarking guide for this game pretty soon so stay tuned for that our 7870 and 7850 did top the charts in this one with our 660 and our 650 TI boost coming very close to each other only about 5% away from each other in terms of performance with the 650 Ti and the 7770 bringing up the rear once again as the less expensive cards this does make sense in the witcher 2 we're running with uber sampling and anti-aliasing disabled and the Radeon cards do come out ahead bearing in mind of course that they are more expensive with the 660 only leading the 650 Ti boost by about 10% and then the 77 70 and the 650 Ti again bringing up the rear we're seeing some pretty good consistency to the results here which means that Nvidia has done a good job of pricing the 650 Ti boost correctly according to the rest of the market the 2 gigs of RAM to me is a huge selling point compared to the recently released 77 90 L though we haven't tested it yet so bear that in mind we will have a review of that coming soon and we're going to include these numbers in there as well so in Metro 2033 the 7870 comes out on top followed by the 660 which is in a very tight pack with the 7850 and the 650 TI boost it's actually pretty good to see how close the 650 Ti boost gets to the 78 50 considering that there is a price differential they're making this one of the most cost effective to gig cards and actually suitable for 1080p gaming because again in Metro 23 both are 77 70 and are 650 TI which are our one gig cards put up pretty decent average frame rates and maximum frame rates but their minimum frame rates were less than half of the average frame rates meaning they ran out of video memory buffer at some point during our testing and absolutely choked in terms of performance so while this is a review of the 650 Ti boost I am looking at it as almost more of an examination of how much memory we actually need for modern gaming so the two games Far Cry 3 and Metro 2033 that really choked on the one gig cards demonstrate that 2 gigs is what we need for 1080p gaming however just because the card supports three plus one in Nvidia surround with an auxilary display doesn't mean you're going to be playing any triple-a not current gen titles at three by 1080p resolution you want to do something like that you got to step up to a bigger card it's nice to see those features from a Productivity standpoint on the card but you know guys make sure your expectations are realistic thank you for checking out this video review of the 650 ti boost from Nvidia don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos