Thursday, March 14th 2013
NVIDIA Working on Faster GeForce GTX 650 Ti
In an attempt to avert the threat posed by the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 7790 "Bonaire," NVIDIA is reportedly changing the specifications of its current GeForce GTX 650 Ti. The company could increase reference clock speeds of its current GTX 650 Ti, without tinkering with physical specifications such as CUDA core count (of 768) or memory bus width of 128-bit. The GTX 650 Ti currently features reference clock speeds of 925 MHz core, and 1350 MHz (5.40 GHz GDDR5-effective) memory. The rehashed GTX 650 Ti could be released towards the end of March, or early-April.
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SweClockers
44 Comments on NVIDIA Working on Faster GeForce GTX 650 Ti
I noticed the 650Ti was on sale on several online shops but i believed there is no way a replacement would come, so remember, when two or more retailers put on sale a product it means only one thing.
Can mean a lot of things, certainly not when two shops have a gpu on sale, a new one is coming out in a month.
Here's the problem, Über versions today don't get close to a 7850 1Gb, on Catalyst 13.1 the spread is like 24%. So if 7790 are 10% below... that tells me even this gerrymandering will still give AMD a 15% lead. But it furnishes Nvidia opportunity to, after all the 7790 reviews hit, say "but wait we got faster" ... but then it's to late 7790 review are done, while not sending-out any to reviewers to vie in the ring. Playing the pretense "we've answered the competition".
www.guru3d.com/news_story/nvidia_geforce_gtx_660_se.html
The war of GPUs continuous eh.
Many articles and post I saw saying that PC gaming is dead.
The PC industry will never end, NEVER.
Alternatively, higher clocks, and renaming it the GTX655Ti would also likely qualify.
Would seem extremely unlikely for Nvidia to drop the ball on a marketing opportunity.
Nvidia or AIB's have to design a PCB because isn't there a few PCB components like those INA219 power monitor chips to regulate Boost to pack on that smurf board? Sure they could move to the large GTX660, losing the one nice feature the diminutive size... would they add SLI. While I wonder if they did go with Boost what's the power section going to need? There's production build-up for PCB's by the AIB's, new printing of packaging, marketing… costs?
I think Nvidia just let loose more "higher" binned chips for less money. AIB will just stay with active Über PCB renditions and sticker the box’s as "advance clocks" and a new Sku's, while hopefully dropping the pricing. Or, is there some new GDDR memory that’s going to get above the 6000 MHz we see now on the GTX650?
For what its worth, most of the GTX 650 Ti's seem to already rely on proprietary cooling solutions to differentiate themselves in the marketplace - some, like Sparkle even use a (gasp!) non reference PCB Memory overclocking has already demonstrated itself to be less effective than pipeline (GPU) overclocking- both from power/heat and net gain- hence the number factory overclocked cards that sport stock clocked memory...or the fact that when AMD transformed the HD 7950 to the 7950 Boost, the memory speed was left untouched.