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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 - The Affordable Kepler

By Kenny Yeo - 24 Sep 2012

Crysis 2, Batman: Arkham City and Dirt 3 Results

Crysis 2 Results

Much like its predecessor, Crysis 2 requires a beast of machine to run smoothly at the highest quality settings - even with a mainstream resolution. Here, our GeForce GTX 650 and Radeon HD 7750 all posted scores well below what would be deemed as minimum frame rates (at least 30fps). Nevertheless, it is interesting to note that on Crysis 2, the Radeon HD 7750 and the GeForce GTX 650 was on a par, with the custom edition MSI GTX 650 Power Edition being only marginally quicker than a reference GeForce GTX 650. Once more, we can see the extreme gulf in performance between the GeForce GTX 650 and the recently launched GeForce GTX 660.

 

Dirt 3 Results

Dirt3 was one of the poster boys for DirectX 11 gaming as it was one of the earliest titles to support it. Looking at the results here, the GeForce GTX 650 was a good 15% or so faster than the Radeon HD 7750. And it could still generate playable frame rates even at 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution - and this was at the Ultra graphics quality settings! Clearly, it will have no problems handling this game at 1080p resolution. The MSI GTX 650 Power Edition was again only slightly quicker than a reference GeForce GTX 650. 

 

Batman: Arkham City Results

On Batman: Arkham City, there was hardly any difference between the GeForce GTX 650 and Radeon HD 7750. Despite being slightly overclocked, the MSI GTX 650 Power Edition also failed to post any gain in performance. Elsewhere, we noted that the Radeon HD 7770 was about 5% to 10% quicker than the GeForce GTX 650 and the GeForce GTX 660 and Radeon HD 7870 were both miles ahead. Judging from our results, it is entirely possible to achieve playable frame rates with the GeForce GTX 650 on Batman: Arkham City if you turn the graphics settings down a notch or two. 

 

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