The Assemblage Of GeForce GTX 650 Ti Graphics Cards (Part 3)

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB (GV-N65TOC-2GI)

Among the graphics card tested today, we can’t fail to mention the product of Gigabyte. A company has received the reputation thanks to its own solutions for the PCB designs, increased clock rate and unique coolers. The new Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB (GV-N65TOC-2GI) is a typical example.

The complex containing box doesn’t look really eye-catching but provides all info that is related to the product.

The card is safely wrapped in an anti-static packing. It also comes with some accessories:

Accompanying accessories

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti is made in China AND costs a little more than 170$. Its warranty period is 2 years.

A glance over this product is enough to see that it’s a copy version of the original GTX 650 Ti which has the Gigabyte brand. It’s also 249-mm long though the PCB is only 145 mm long, almost the same to the PCB in 2 prior graphics cards.

The product design

The front side of the PCB is covered by the WindForce 2X cooler, which is about 40% longer than the length of its PCB.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti provides an unusual choice for the video interface including 2 dual-link DVI connectors and one HDMI and one D-Sub port.

Outputs

There are small air vents at the card’s bracket.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a 6-pin power connector at the back side:

Power connector

It may look less convenient than when the power connector is on the opposite direction, but the engineers of Gigabytes have no different choice because the cooler on their product is from another manufacturer.  The power requirements need to be identical to the following reference samples: 110 watts for graphics card and 400 watts for the compute using it.

The PCB is only different from the original one in colors.

PCB

The 2+1-phrase power system is controlled by Upi Semiconductor uP6210 device. This graphics card belongs to the Utra Durable 2 series, which means that its special features is using the high-quality and reliable components.

Its GPU was made on the 34^th week of 2012.

GPU

It’s pre-overclocked to 1,033 MHz (+11.3%). That number is pretty much, though not as high as the GPU clock rate at EVGA graphics card.

The memory chips are as the same type as those on the aforementioned Nvidia and EVGA, but the memory capacity is doubled to 2 GB.

Memory Chip

Unfortunately, the memory frequency is set at the standard level of 5,400 MHz, so the technical specs of Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti is only different to the original version at GPU clock rate and related parameters.

Besides the overclocked GPU, Gigabyte is highly appreciated thanks to the cooler with the name of WindForce 2X.

WindForce 2X

It includes aluminum heatsink foils with 2 copper heat pipes, 6 mm in diameter. These heat pipes are a basic part of the cooler, and the thermal grease above, all ideally suited with the 221-m² die of GPU.

The radiator is made of the thin aluminum plates, fitted the thermal pipes with the gap of 1 mm.

The design of the cooler

The cooler is only 10-mm thick, so the 90-mm PWM fan doesn’t have difficult blowing the cool air to those dense aluminum foils. This is confirmed by our temperature test.

Auto fan mode and max fan mode

As you can see, WindForce 2X does its job well: 47⁰C at auto fan mode and only 43⁰C when the fan runs at full speed. The result above is much better when comparing 2 prior graphics cards.

Though the cooler is high-efficient, the graphics card itself can’t offer anything special in terms of overclocking capability. We can only increase the clock rate of GPU by about 45 MHz and the clock rate of the memory by 1,760 MHz.

Overclocking process as trial

The clock rate result is 1,078/7,160 MHz:

Overclocking result

Though Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti doesn’t impress us on its overclocking capability, the WindForce 2X cooler one more time delivers an outstanding performance, not letting the GPU become hotter than 50⁰C.

Temperature results when overclocking

This result is collative to the auto fan mode when the fan works at 1,680 RPM. Gigabyte doesn’t have any rivals among the graphics cards we test today in terms of CPU temperature.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB (GV-N65TOC-2GI) technical specs

·         Interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16

·         Chipset Manufacturer: NVIDIA

·         GPU: GeForce GTX 650 Ti

·         Core Clock: 1,032MHz

·         CUDA Cores: 768

·         Effective Memory Clock: 5,400MHz

·         Memory Size: 2GB

·         Memory Interface: 128-bit

·         Memory Type: GDDR5

·         Ports: 1 x HDMI; 1 x D-SUB; 2 x DVI-I

·         RAMDAC: 400 MHz

·         Max Resolution: 2,560x1,600

·         3D VISION Game Ready: Yes

·         SLI Support: No

·         Cooler: With Fan

·         Dual-Link DVI Supported: Yes

·         HDCP Ready: Yes