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.In Game Performance
For in game performance we have broken down the FPS that we have gotten from each game testing into a list showing over 60 FPS, over 30 FPS, and under 30 FPS. This will give you an idea of how well you can expect the games to play on the Asus GTX 650 Ti DirectCU II Top. For most, anything over 30 FPS will be perfectly fine, some people do find anything less than 60 FPS to be a little off. For those people you will have to adjust the settings down slightly from high settings for anything in the Over 30 FPS section. To see exactly how they tested look further down, you can compare between cards there.
Smooth (over 60 FPS)
Batman Arkham Asylum
Dirt 3
Super Street Fighter Arcade Edition
Playable (over 30 FPS)
Battlefield 3
Crysis 2 DX9
Crysis 2 DX11
Dirt Showdown
F1 2011
Total War: Shogun 2
Sniper V2 Elite
Unreal Heaven Benchmark
Rough (under 30 FPS)
Metro 2033 DX10
Metro 2033 DX11
As you can see above, the overclocked card doesn’t change the rankings in our playable scale from the reference card. What they did manage to do is inch some of the results even closer. For example Dirt Showdown and F1 2011 both moved up three FPS from 50 and 51 FPS putting them at 53 and 54 FPS, very close to the ideal 60 FPS that we shoot for.
