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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti - The Budget Kepler With A Bite

By James Lu - 9 Oct 2012

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 & Far Cry 2 Results

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Results

Our first gaming benchmark is Battlefield: Bad Company 2, one of the earliest DirectX 11 first-person shooters. While it's showing its age a bit, its Frostbite 1.5 engine is still a fairly good test of a GPU’s geometry shading power and should be a good starting point for our entry-level cards.

The GTX 650 Ti was again very impressive, outperforming both the GTX 650 and AMD Radeon HD 7770 by about 47%, a significant difference that pushed it up to the targeted 60 FPS average at the resolution of 1920 x 1200 and well above it on 1680 x 1050.  The GTX 660 however remained out of reach, outperforming the GTX 650 Ti by 55% on the 1920 x 1200 resolution.

ASUS' custom card was less impressive on our first gaming benchmark, averaging a performance increase of only 3% against the reference design.

 

 

Far Cry 2 Results

NVIDIA cards usually perform well on Far Cry 2 and it was no different with the GTX 650 Ti, which beat its rival from AMD by an average of about 35%. ASUS improved its showing, outperforming the reference card by around 6% across all resolutions and settings.

      

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