MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti Power Edition OC 1GB GDDR5 PCIe

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 5 expert reviews

Excellent:

2
Good:

3
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Good performance.
Excellent overclocking.
Great value.

Cons:

Long PCB design.
Endmounted power connector.

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Last revision on October 27, 2014

Reviewers Liked

Good performance
Excellent overclocking
Great value
Low temperatures and noise
Factory overclock
Extremely quiet
Very low power consumption
Overclocked out of the box
Good overclocking potential
Low temperatures
Support for PCIExpress 3.0 and DirectX 11.1
Support for NVIDIA CUDA & PhysX
Military Grade Components

Reviewers Didn't Like

Long PCB design
Endmounted power connector
Open heatsink won't fully exhaust warm air
Memory not overclocked
No NVIDIA GPU Boost
No support for SLI
Only 1GB of RAM
Only 3 outputs

Expert reviews and ratings

Good budget gaming card with factory overclock and low temperatures. Discuss in the...

By Pureoverclock on October 22, 2012

NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 650 Ti offers much better performance than the normal GTX 650. The GTX 650 uses GK107 silicon, whereas the GTX 650 Ti uses GK106 silicon, which is also used on the GTX 660. This change makes the card 30% faster than GTX 650,...

By techPowerUp! on October 09, 2012

IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to...

By Benchmark Reviews on October 09, 2012

The MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti is a mid-range card, and yet it performs admirably in even stressful games. For its quality and performance at its price range, it earns the Bjorn3D Silver Bear...

By bjorn3d.com on October 09, 2012

Today we'll take a closer look at three mid and low-end MSI graphics adapters from the same NVIDIA 6xx family, which are quite different nevertheless. MSI GeForce GTX 660 TwinFrozr OC Edition MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti OC Power Edition GPU: GeForce GTX...

By iXBT Labs on March 01, 2013

NVIDIA's Kepler based GPU's have completely turned the graphics card world upside down with their phenomenal performance and features, and it all started with the release of the GTX 680. NVIDIA introduced a host of new features with the Kepler based GPU...

By Neoseeker on January 08, 2013

MSI needs to be commended for creating a GTX 650 that is stylish, quiet, and highly overclockable and has a modular thermal design. All of these aspects really make the MSI GTX 650 PE stand out as a stellar example of what an aftermarket graphic...

By Real World Labs on October 19, 2012

MSI has informed us that the retail price on the GTX 650 Ti Power Edition will be $159.99. That pretty much bridges the gap between the GTX650 and GTX 660 cards. The performance level finds itself in the middle of those two cards as well. I think the...

By overclockers.com on October 09, 2012

Today Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, a graphics card based on the same GK106 GPU that the GeForce GTX 660 is built around. Nvidia's new card is positioned against AMD's Radeon HD 7770. Hardware.Info compared cards from Gigabyte, MSI and...

By uk.hardware.info on October 09, 2012

Si l'overclocking de ce modèle n'est pas énorme, il permet tout de même de faire grimper la note 3D d'une étoile par rapport à un modèle plus conventionnel. En outre, le dissipateur Cyclone II fonctionne de manière assez discrète....

By Les Numériques on October 09, 2012

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