EVGA
GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 1GB (01G-P4-3652-KR)
The packing way at the EVGA products is
easy to distinguish and this new EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 1GB is not an
exception.
At the front of the box, you can see the
name of the manufacturer, product model, memory type and capacity along with
the SCC abbreviation. For more info about technical specs and main features,
you can refer to the back of the box.
It comes with a DVD->D-Sub adaptor, a
charger (2 PATA->a 6-pin connector), 1 CD with drivers and the utilities, 1 user
installation guide and 2 leaflets.
Accompanying
accessories
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC is made in
China and has the price of 149.9$. Included in this price is the official
3-year warranty of the manufacturer. EVGA offers 4 products for the GeForce GTX
650 Ti graphics card. The product we out on a test here is one of the 2 faster
variants (the other version is equipped with 2-GB memory).
The outer difference compared to the
original card is the limitation of the plastic cover which has the name of the
manufacturer and the product.
Design
description
The entire card and its PCB have the length
of 145 mm. The dual-slot design makes it 38 mm thick. Besides the standard
selections about video interface (DVI dual-link port and one mini HDMI port
version 1.4a), there’s a system of small vents at the card’s bracket to exhaust
the hot air out of the computer chassis:
The
connectors
Completely in contrast to the original
product, the version from EVGA doesn’t inhale the hot air because its case
covers it at all sides, except for the fan.
A 6-pin power connector is placed at the
top of the right corner of the PCB.
Power
connector
Despite the increased clock rate, EVGA still
recommends using 400-watt PSU and affirms that the peak power-consuming level
of the product is not higher than 110 watts, similar to the official standards
at the products of Nvidia.
The PCB follows the design of the original version
with the 2+1-phrase power system and the memory chip at the front side.
PCB
structure of the product
In contrast to the original product, EVGA has
the protective plastic frame for GPU.
The
plastic frame protecting the GPU
The GPU clock rate is increased from the
standard level which is 928 MHz to 1,072 MHz (+15.5%), the highest frequency
among the products we put on the test this time, so now we can tell you that
the SCC abbreviation means Super Super Clocked. The remaining technical specs
of GPU are identical to the original version
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC is equipped
with 1-GB GDDR5 memory with the H5GQ2H24AFR R0C chip of Hynix, the same to what
we see at the graphics card of Nvidia.
H5GQ2H24AFR
R0C chip
The memory being not pre-overclocked, works
at the frequency of 5,400 MHz. At the 2D apps, this graphics card reduces its
clock rate of memory and GPU to a respective level of 648 MHz and 324 MHz.
Here is what the GPU-Z utility offers about
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC:
There’s not much to say about the cooling
system mounted on the EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC. The plastic cover has hid
all aluminum heatsink foils inside with an inner 80mm Everflow T128015SH fan:
Everflow
T128015SH fan
EVGA thinks that’s enough to cool an
overclocked GK106. Let’s find out if that’s indeed the truth:
Auto
fan mode and max fan mode
With the relatively higher GPU clock rate
than the original version from Nvidia, though, GPU at the graphics card of EVGA
is still cooler: 600C at auto fan mode and 540C at max
fan mode. Calculated on the monitoring data, the fan only works at 21% of its
full capacity at auto mode. We wonder how EVGA improves the efficiency of its
own cooler compared to the original version. The only explanation we can think
of is that the plastic cover has contributed to this result by exhausting the
hot air out of the chassis.
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC is
pre-overclocked; we don’t expect any miracle to happen in our
overclocking-capability test. Indeed, we only try increasing the clock rate of
the GPU by 55 MHz, reaching 1,127 MHz. the clock rate of the memory chips are
once again effectively overclocked from 5,400 MHz to 7,200 MHz, just like the
original Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti.
Overclocking
process
The memory bandwidth increases from 86.4
GB/s to 115.2 GB/s after overclocking process. The full speed also increases as
well.
Overclocking
result
Overclocked EVGA is still cool enough, the
peak GPU temperature is not higher than 660C at auto fan mode.
Overclocking
result
EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC leaves a good
overall impression though the memory capacity is only 1 GB.
EVGA
GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 1GB (01G-P4-3652-KR) technical specs
·
Warranty Terms – Parts: 3 years
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Warranty Terms – Labor: 3 years
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Assembly Required: false
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Type of Video Card: Graphics
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Video Memory: 1GB
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Interface Slot Type: PCI Express
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Type of Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
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S-Video Output: No
·
System Requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8;
400-watt power supply
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Graphics Chip: NVIDIA
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UPC: 843368022464
