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

By James Lu - 9 Oct 2012

Crysis Warhead & Crysis 2 Results

Crysis Warhead Results

While Crysis Warhead is running on a DX10 engine, it is still fairly taxing and features heavy tessellation. After AMD's win in the Unigine 2.1 "Heaven" benchmark we expected another win for AMD here. Surprisingly, the GTX 650 Ti held its own and maintained a 15-20% lead across almost all settings.

The one test in which the GTX 650 Ti failed to claim victory was at the 2560 x 1600 resolution at 4x AA. In fact, it failed to run at all, whereas AMD's 7770, while not impressive, or even anywhere near playable, was able to run the benchmark and post a score. Do note though that these graphics cards are not designed to be run at such high resolutions and settings.

     

 

Crysis 2 Results

Much like its predecessor, Crysis 2 requires a beast of a machine to run with its Ultra High setting putting GPUs through their paces with a grueling test of tessellation, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, water rendering, and particle motion blur and shadowing.

At the lower 1680 x 1050 resolution setting, NVIDIA recorded a narrow 6% win over AMD's 7770. Both cards effectively tying at the 1920 x 1200 resolution, while the situation was reversed at 2560 x 1600, with AMD outperforming NVIDIA by about 5%, although it should be noted that the actual difference in frame rate between the two cards was negligible.

ASUS was quite strong in this benchmark, scoring as high as 16% more than the reference design at the resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

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