Introduction

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti with Boost has been on the market for a few weeks now and was received with very positive reviews. NVIDIA's latest card provides a significant performance improvement over the GTX 650 Ti thanks to the added Boost algorithm. Performance is slightly higher than AMD's HD 7850 with very competitive pricing.



In this review, we test the EVGA GTX 650 Ti Boost SuperClocked, which, as the name suggests, is overclocked out of the box to a base clock frequency of 1072 MHz; quite a large increase over the 980 MHz of the reference design. Memory runs at the reference clock of 1502 MHz. Pricing is up by $10 compared to the NVIDIA reference design, which seems to be reasonable.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + documentation
• DVI adapter
• PCI-Express power cable
• EVGA case badge

The Card

EVGA is using a carbon-fiber look with their card, paired with a single-fan cooler. The card is 24.5 cm long and 11.5 cm high.


Installing the card requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DVI ports, one full-size DisplayPort, and one full-size HDMI port. You may use all outputs at the same time, so triple-monitor surround gaming is possible with one card.

The GPU also includes an HDMI sound device. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible, which includes HD audio and Blu-ray 3D movies support.


A single SLI connector is available, which means you can combine up to two cards for a multi-GPU setup. SLI was not supported at all on the GTX 650 Ti without Boost.


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