14 DAY TRIAL // Quite a bunch of reports on the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics cards have made their way to the web over the past couple of weeks, so it was about time that Micro-Star International contributed.
For those not up to speed with the situation, NVIDIA has been preparing a newer and stronger version of the GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card.
We wrote pretty much all there was to write about it around the middle of the month, just over a week ago.
The product is supposed to combat the Radeon HD 7790 that Advanced Micro Devices and its many partners have released.
Verily, one has to wonder how much longer NVIDIA will hold it back, now that the competition has stepped up the game. But we digress.
The MSI-branded GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost graphics card was spotted by the folks at WCCFTech website.
It has a GK106 graphics processing unit with 768 CUDA cores, just like previous rumors said it would.
2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM back the chip up, and the memory interface is of 192 bits. It is a bit surprising that 2 GB are used instead of 1 GB really.
MSI's card boasts the GPU Boost dynamic clock technology as well, with the base speed being of 1,030 MHz. Speaking of which, the GDDR5 VRAM operates at 6 GHz. Everything boils down to a bandwidth of 144 GB/s.
All in all, there is enough cause to depict the MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost as a competitor for AMD's Radeon HD 7850 instead of HD 7790.
The Twin Frozr III cooler is just the icing on the cake, not counting what seems to be a non-reference PCB (printed circuit board).
Sales should start before the month is out. The price, unfortunately, is not known.
