An Upgraders Guide – from 8800-GTX to GTX 650 Ti BOOST (Pt. 2)
Test Configuration – Hardware
- Intel Core i7-3770K reference 3.50 GHz/Turbo to 3.7GHz, overclocked to 4.5 GHz; HyperThreading is on, supplied by Intel.
- EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard (latest Beta BIOS, USB/PCIe 3.0 specification; CrossFire/SLI 16x+16x), supplied by EVGA
- 8 GB OCZ DDR3 PC 1866 Kingston RAM (4×2 GB, dual-channel at 1866 MHz; supplied by Kingston)
- Nvidia reference GTX 650 Ti BOOST, 2 GB (reference clocks 980/3004MHz), supplied by Nvidia
- Galaxy GTX 660, 2 GB reference clocks (980/3004MHz), supplied by EVGA.
- Nvidia GTX 650 Ti, 1 GB reference design and clocks (925/2700MHz), supplied by Nvidia
- EVGA GTX 550 Ti, 1GB factory overclocked (951/2178MHz) and supplied by EVGA
- Galaxy GTX 460, 1GB factory overclocked (900/1800MHz) and supplied by Galaxy
- BFG GTX 280, 1GB reference clocks (700/1848MHz)
- 8800-GTX, 768MB reference clocks (630/1960MHz)
- Onboard Realtek Audio
- 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200-12 HDD
- Cooler Master Silent Pro Platinum 1000W PSU, Supplied by Coolermaster
- Thermaltake Chaser MK-I Full Tower case, supplied by Thermaltake
- Noctua NH-DH14 CPU cooler and 8 case fans, supplied by Noctua
- Philips DVD SATA writer
- HP LP3065 2560×1600 thirty inch LCD.
Test Configuration – Software
- Nvidia GeForce 314.22 WHQL drivers for all GTXes except for the GTX 650 Ti BOOST – 314.14 launch drivers. High Quality, prefer maximum performance, single display.
- Windows 7 64-bit; very latest updates
- Latest DirectX
- All games are patched to their latest versions.
- VSync is off in the control panel.
- AA enabled as noted in games; all in-game settings are specified with 16xAF always applied; 16xAF forced in control panel for Crysis.
- All results show average, minimum and maximum frame rates except as noted.
- Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
- Windows 7 64, all DX10 titles were run under DX10 render paths; DX11 titles under DX11 render paths.
The Benchmarks
Synthetic
- Vantage
- 3DMark 11
- Firestrike
- Heaven 4.0
- Valley 1.0
DX9
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Serious Sam 3 BFE
- Alan Wake: Ameican Nightmare
- The Witcher 2
- Borderlands 2
- Resident Evil 6 demo
DX10
- Crysis
- Far Cry 2
- Just Cause 2
- Resident Evil 5
DX11
- BattleForge
- Alien vs. Predator
- STALKER, Call of Pripyat
- Metro 2033
- F1 2010
- F1 2012
- H.A.W.X. 2
- Lost Planet 2
- Shogun II
- Crysis 2
- Dirt 3
- Batman: Arkham City
- Battlefield 3
- Max Payne 3
- the Secret World
- Sleeping Dogs
- Sniper Elite V2
- Hitman: Absolution
- Assassin’s Creed 3
Let’s head to the performance charts to see how the GTX 650 Ti BOOST – stock and overclocked – compares with the non-Boost regular GTX 650 Ti and the GTX 660.
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Hi, i’m an owner of a gtx 8800 and i can tell you that at a resolution of 1680×1080 it can still run like hell in dx9/10 with latest games at hight setting, Skyrim run at 35-60 fps with very hight settings, Battleforge stay always over 50 fps… all detail maxed out… and many other games can still works fine.
I don’t understand how you obtained similar results with your gtx 8800, but mine is still a beast… with performance really similar at the gtx 650 ti (that i own on my third pc at work).
Greetings.
Also have GeForce 8800GTS 512MB G92 128sp 256bit and can say that still rocks. Planing to change cpu from E8400 to i7 4790S 3.2GHz Haswell-Refresh and plus to overclock a little bit GPU so I think in games it will give me +5fps more, so I dont really see why I have to change old good 8800
My monitor hangs max 1280×1024 resolution, for it 8800 is still make things done at good level.
Got two 9600GTs in here… Maxing out Crysis on everything Ultra on 1366×768…playing every other game fluid (except anno 2070 and that only on Ultra Level aswell 20-35 FPS) …dont know whats with These benchmarks