Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC edition review

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Okay so Palit delivered us their GeForce GTX 650Ti Boost OC edition graphics card with 2048 MB GDDR5. Obviously all board partners will offer a wide variety of models/SKUs with customized PCB's, coolers and memory configurations. The reference card has a 1006 MHz clock frequency, the effective memory data rate (192-bit) is 6108 MHz. Being GDDR5 that doubles up bandwidth giving this product a rather nice 147 GB/sec of bandwidth to fool around with. Our card has been equipped with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. 

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Here you can see the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost, the 2 GB version. Honestly aside from a few shader processors, you are looking at the GeForce GTX 660. Overall a nice yet simple looking card for what it is reality. Let's look at the card from several different viewpoints.

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The card is equipped with the GK106 GPU that harbours the Kepler GPU architecture. You will spot two dual-link DVI connectors, a HDMI connector and Display Port as well.

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When we flip the card around we spot a 6-pin PEG power connector (BTW I get asked about it all the time but PEG = PCI Express Graphics). With 75W leading though the PCIe slot and another 75 watt fed by the plug you'll have 150W available for potential overclocking.

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Looking at the backside of the card we see a very non-complex PCB. As you can see there are no other SMT traces to be found for extra memory, abundantly indicating that this indeed is a 2GB of graphics memory. Mind you that these cards come with one SLI connector allowing you to setup a 2-way SLI system. Price performance wise that could be a very attractive alternative really.

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The cooler is really nice and silent with the temperatures under gaming load quit lower then the reference coolers. The card is PCIe gen 3.0 compatible. Going from PCIe Gen 2 to Gen 3 doubles the bandwidth available to the add-on cards installed, from 500 MB/s per lane to 1 GB/s per lane. 

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