The EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC offers decent performance for 1680x1050 gaming. Full HD (1080p) gaming is asking a bit too much from the card, although it should be able to handle HD 1080p gaming at lower details settings. The SSC is the highest clocked GTX 650 Ti available at the moment, leading the charts with a 4% performance gain over the NVIDIA reference design. Unfortunately, the memory is not overclocked despite the use of more expensive chips that could at least handle 1500 MHz. Instead, EVGA doubled the memory size of their card to 2 GB, which barely makes a difference. Its extra memory only causes improvements with a few games, like Battlefield 3 and Skyrim, at 2560 x 1600: a resolution that's clearly impractical for the GTX 650 Ti because overall performance is just not fast enough.

Power consumption of the card is low in all states, especially in idle and multi-monitor do we see fantastic results that are much better than other GTX 650 Ti cards. Performance per watt during gaming is great as well. That is, a bit better than AMD, but the difference is relatively small. The extra memory adds to power consumption, but the difference is negligible.
Power consumption is low, but fan noise is a bit higher than expected. The EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC is certainly the noisiest GTX 650 Ti card we have tested so far. It seems to me as though EVGA has not properly matched the temperature / fan speed curve to the capabilities of their cooler.
Overclocking worked very well, and the memory reached new record levels with more than a 40% overclock! Maximum GPU clock was higher than on other GTX 650 Ti boards, but the high out of the box overclock ate into some of the overclocking headroom. Overall, the card managed to gain more than a 20% real-life performance boost that was mostly due to its good memory OC.
EVGA's GTX 650 Ti SSC 2 GB is available online for $180, which is clearly too high. The extra 1 GB of memory contributes a lot to the price increase without providing enough extra performance to justify the cost. The same card costs $155 with 1GB of memory - definitely the better buy. But $155 is still expensive compared to what various AMD HD 7850 1 GB cards offer. They provide over 25% more performance at a slightly higher price of $165.