If you are an avid reader, you have most likely seen countless Asus motherboard reviews and even a few audio products as well recently. Something that is a little rarer is having an Asus video card come through our office. When Asus contacted me asking if we wanted to take a look at their upcoming GTX 650 Ti DirectCU II TOP, there wasn’t even a hesitation. We have already taken a look at the reference GTX 650 Ti; this card on the other hand is nothing like it. Sure you have the same architecture, as you would expect. But the DirectCU II TOP is almost twice as long, has twice the cooling, and has a considerably different PCB even. It’s no off the shelf reference design, today we are going to dig in and see what all of that means for you when looking to buy a GTX 650 Ti.Page 7 of 10
3DMark
With the Asus GTX 650 Ti DirectCU II TOP having a nice overclock over the reference card, we were excited to see what kind of improvement over the reference card we would see. When it comes to 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark 11 tests we were surprised at the bump in numbers considering how small the difference between stock and overclocked models can sometimes be. For example in 3DMark Vantage Performance test we saw 17263 over the reference cards 16094, that’s a nice improvement! The extra performance bumped the card up even closer to the HD 6950 results for example.
