An Upgraders Guide – from 8800-GTX to GTX 650 Ti BOOST (Pt. 2)
Conclusion
This has been quite an enjoyable exploration for us in evaluating our new GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2GB where it brings good performance value. We are totally impressed with this cool-running mainstream just above “entry level” GTX Ti BOOST gaming card that totally runs away from the regular GTX 660 Ti non-BOOST editions as well as the older 1GB DDR-equipped GTX 550 Ti, GTX 460 and distances itself completely from the older DX1o cards.
Any gamer that is still on a DX10 card is really missing out on visuals and performance. They are not getting much better than XBox360 visuals coupled with even slower performance of the newest games.
For its $169 price, the GTX 650 Ti BOOST gives more than 80% of the performance of the GTX 660 which is priced at $200. Although the GTX 650 Ti BOOST is generally outclassed by the GTX 660, it is also priced about thirty dollars less. Add in the bundled $75 of ingame items for the 3 popular F2P games, and the GTX 650 Ti BOOST becomes a great value. However, a gamer who is really into these games might consider spending the extra thirty dollars and get the GTX 660 with the $150 in-game item bundle instead.
The Verdict:
- If you are buying a $169 entry level gaming video card right now that is perfect for 1920×1080 as well as being great bang for buck, the GTX 650 Ti BOOST is a great choice especially considering that it is bundled with $75 of ingame items. It’s past time to upgrade from DX10 cards and to perhaps use them as a second dedicated card for PhysX.
We do not know what the future will bring, but the Nvidia’s GTX 650 Ti BOOST brings good value and a great performer to the latest member of the 28nm GeForce Kepler family. With great features like PhysX and the second generation of 3D Vision, you can be assured of immersive gaming by picking this card for 1920×1080 resolution.
The competition is hot and AMD offers their own set of features including Eyefinity 2.0 and the faster and recently lower-priced HD 7790 1GB editions. We hope to be able to bring you a head to head comparison of the HD 7790 with the 1GB GTX 650 Ti BOOST.
Stay tuned, there is a lot coming from us at ABT. This upcoming week, you can expect a evaluation of Kingston’s new HyperX Black PCB 16GB 2166MHz RAM kit. We will see if it makes any difference over our current 8GB 1866MHz HyperX.
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Mark Poppin
ABT Senior Editor
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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