ZOTAC GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Pro Reviews

NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost adds a strong sub-$200 option to the company's lineup. Thanks to the added Boost clock algorithm and a beefed up 192-bit memory interface, we see massive performance gains compared to the GTX 650 Ti without Boost, and ZOTAC's GTX 650 Ti Boost adds a dual-fan cooler on top of that. GPU clock is up by 13 MHz—barely worth mentioning. Memory clock is unchanged. When averaging our performance results, we see a large 26% improvement over the original GTX 650 Ti, which definitely makes the difference between "slow" and very playable at 1080p. Compared to AMD's lineup, we see a performance that is 2% higher than the HD 7850 and 21% higher than the just-released HD 7790. What I find a bit surprising is that ZOTAC's card performs a little worse than the reference design despite having a 13 MHz overclock. The differences are barely measurable in individual tests, but we see around a 1% performance difference when averaged. It seems as though ZOTAC's card runs a slightly different boost clock configuration in the BIOS, and random variances between Kepler cards can also turn into performance differences.