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NVIDIA 650 series...?

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right as title, does anyone have any concrete word on whether we are expecting a 650 series? since Kepler at the moment is lacking a pure 'mid-range' part, the 660 series is priced outside of what would be considered the mainstream, therefore been thinking surely NVIDIA shooting themselves in the foot a bit with no direct competitor to the 7850 series. Wikipedia has 'GTX 650' pencilled in for September 13th 2012 but nobody has any on their sites for pre-order or anything of the such. thanks for any input in advance! :)
 
Given Nvidia's X50 for the last few gens, I bet in pure power that 4870x2 you have in your signature would be better. A 4870x2 at full pelt can get up in the face of a 6950 with general ease.
Although, with E-tailers and stock. Probably like the i3 Ivy's. Silent launch and going up on sites on the 13th/Later.
 
granted my 4870X2 has been a fantastic card over the years, starting to suffer in some newer generations of games which really see the benefit of the newer architectures, plus there is the much lower power consumption and energy saving when not at full tilt which is appealing. the board am currently using was always intended as a stop-gap board, was planning on getting something ASUS sabretooth-esque which gives me another PCI-E slot to play with.
 
The non TI version of the 660 releases in the next few days. Should be available under £200 apparently.
 
see that is appealing as well, the logic was though that perhaps, just perhaps the GTX 650 might be a modern echo of the 7600GT, had two of those clocked to hell in SLi, was fast as hell for the time! :D
 
Ha yeah, I was bang on about the 650 in regards to a 4870x2.
Quite pathetic from Nvidia really. The GTS 250 was like a 4850, we're now many years on from that and it's still not twice as powerful at that same market segment. Appalling.
 
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Gibbo said:
IN STOCK!

650 is a bargain sub £100 :D
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I'm confused by this.
The 650 looks to be nothing more than a midly more powerful 550, which was just a mildly more powerful 450, which was just a DX11 250, which itself was just a 9800GTX.

7770 looks like a better buy.
 
The 650 is... pretty disappointing...

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I have to question that review, obviously a gulf in price performance between the 650 and AMD cards is plausible, but a gulf in price performance between the 650 and the 550ti? Nvidia are not stupid enough to release a card with the same RRP as a superior card form their previous generation that is still in high supply, are they?
 
yeah shockingly enough the 7770 has turned out to be the faster of the two, its also more or less equal priced, two 7770 in Crossfire churn out almost exactly double the frame-rate of a single card? since when did Crossfire become so efficient, had two X1650 years ago and the scaling was nothing close to 100%?

another bizarre point I have noticed is the ~1.28 TeraFLOPS performance of the 7770, makes it awfully close to the HD 4870 series, which it is quite superior to in a lot of cases, how can two cards with similar levels of compute power be so different in performance? on another note the 7770 offers fantastic performance/watt.
 
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While THG is not the best site for reviews (their reviews are generally not that scientific although they do often show min as well as max FPS), those results are not inconsistent with the overall scores of the 7750/7770 from techPowerUp:
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or computerbase. So I don't see anything surprising there. Looks worse value than the 7750/7770 but until more sites do review it's hard to be sure. And low-end cards tend not be reviewed too often anyhow. Still it does answer the question of what happened to the 640 GDDR5: it was released as the 650 GDDR5.
 
Gashman said:
right as title, does anyone have any concrete word on whether we are expecting a 650 series? since Kepler at the moment is lacking a pure 'mid-range' part, the 660 series is priced outside of what would be considered the mainstream, therefore been thinking surely NVIDIA shooting themselves in the foot a bit with no direct competitor to the 7850 series. Wikipedia has 'GTX 650' pencilled in for September 13th 2012 but nobody has any on their sites for pre-order or anything of the such. thanks for any input in advance! :)
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saw some benchmarks of 650 a few hours ago... apparently a 450/550ti is way better. I'm not sure why the hell this happens. 660 non ti is like 10-20% slower than a 660 ti.
 
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