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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC Duel - ASUS vs. Palit

By James Lu - 28 Mar 2013

Meet the Custom Cards

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

This week, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, a mid-range card designed to fill the S$250-$350 price gap currently found between the S$250 GeForce GTX 650 Ti and S$350 GeForce GTX 660. In our review of the reference card, we found it to offer great performance and value for its specifications. In fact, it topped our price-performance ratio chart, offering the most FPS per US$1. Our only nitpicks were that the reference design cooler was quite a bit larger than the original GTX 650 Ti, and that its overclocking capabilities seemed quite average. Today, we're going to find out if a custom cooler edition can solve those problems, as we look at models from ASUS and Palit.

Can our custom cards improve on the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost design?

 

Meet the ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost DirectCU II OC

ASUS' GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost uses ASUS' popular DirectCU II custom cooler that comprises of two copper heatpipes in direct contact with the GPU, cooled by two 80mm fans. The card is overclocked on the core to 1020MHz with memory remaining at the reference 6008MHz DDR.

The cooler design is thankfully much smaller than the reference design with the card measuring 214 x 117 x 37 mm - although, it is still not as compact as the reference and custom designs for the basic GTX 650 Ti.

Ports remain the same as the reference design, with two DVI ports, one HDMI port and one DisplayPort port.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost DirectCU II OC is priced at S$309 and comes with a 3-year limited warranty.

 

Meet the Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC

Palit's GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost also uses a dual 80mm fan custom cooler design with two copper heatpipes in contact with the GPU. The card is running a very modest overclock on the core to 1006MHz, with memory also raised to 6108MHz DDR.

The card is slightly more compact than ASUS' design, measuring 194 x 111 x 37 mm, and has a more complete fan shroud that covers the entire PCB.

Like ASUS' model, ports remain the same as the reference design, with two DVI ports, one HDMI port and one DisplayPort port.

The Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC is priced at S$299 and comes with a 2-year limited warranty. You can compare the full spec-list between the tested cards in this table below:-

 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Custom Cards and competitive SKUs compared
  ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost DirectCU II OC Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7790 AMD Radeon HD 7770 AMD Radeon HD 7850
  ASUS GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost DirectCU II OC Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7790 AMD Radeon HD 7770 AMD Radeon HD 7850
Core Code
  • GK106
  • GK106
  • GK106
  • GK106
  • Bonaire
  • Cape Verde XT
  • Pitcairn Pro
GPU Transistor Count
  • 2.54 billion
  • 2.54 billion
  • 2.54 billion
  • 2.54 Billion
  • 2.08 billion
  • 1.5 billion
  • 2.8 billion
Manufacturing Process
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
  • 28nm
Core Clock
  • 1020MHz
  • 1006MHz
  • 980MHz
  • 980MHz
  • 1000MHz
  • 1000MHz
  • 860MHz
Stream Processors
  • 768 CUDA cores
  • 768 CUDA cores
  • 768 CUDA cores
  • 960 CUDA cores
  • 896
  • 640
  • 1024
Stream Processor Clock
  • 1020MHz
  • 1006MHz
  • 980MHz
  • 980MHz
  • 1000MHz
  • 1000MHz
  • 860MHz
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs)
  • 64
  • 64
  • 64
  • 80
  • 56
  • 40
  • 64
Raster Operator units (ROP)
  • 16
  • 16
  • 16
  • 24
  • 16
  • 16
  • 32
Memory Clock (DDR)
  • 6008MHz
  • 6108MHz
  • 6008MHz
  • 6008MHz DDR
  • 6000MHz
  • 4500MHz
  • 4800MHz
Memory Bus width
  • 192-bit
  • 192-bit
  • 192-bit
  • 192-bit
  • 128-bit
  • 128-bit
  • 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
  • 144.2GB/s
  • 144.2GB/s
  • 144.2GB/s
  • 144.2GB/s
  • 96 GB/s
  • 72 GB/s
  • 153.6 GB/s
PCI Express Interface
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
  • PCIe v3.0 x16
Power Connectors
  • 1 x 6-pin PCIe
  • 1 x 6-pin PCIe
  • 1 x 6-pin PCIe
  • 1 x six-pin Molex PCIe power connector
  • 1 x 6-pin
  • 1 x 6-pin
  • 1 x 6-pin
Multi GPU Technology
  • SLI
  • SLI
  • SLI
  • SLI
  • CrossFireX
  • CrossFireX
  • CrossFireX
DVI Outputs
  • 1 x DVI-D
  • 1 x DVI-I
  • 1 x DVI-D
  • 1 x DVI-I
  • 1 x DVI-D
  • 1 x DVI-I
  • 1 x DVI-I, 1 x DVI-D
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
HDMI Outputs
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
DisplayPort Outputs
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1

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