**The Battle of the Graphics Cards: Boost vs. 670**

Let's dive into the world of graphics cards and explore the performance of two popular models: the GTX 650 TI Boost in 2-way SLI and the ASUS DX2 GT K 670. We'll put these cards through a series of benchmarks to determine which one comes out on top.

**Boost Pull Ahead**

In our first test, we see the Boost pull ahead in 2-way over the 670. This suggests that the GTX 650 TI Boost in SLI configuration is performing better than expected. As we continue to run more tests, it becomes clear that the Boost is consistently beating out the 670.

**Scaling Performance**

However, when it comes to scaling performance, the story changes. While the Boost performs well in most games and applications, its scaling performance leaves much to be desired. In fact, it's only slightly better than the 670, with a noticeable drop-off at higher frame rates. This is a significant limitation, especially for those who want to use multiple graphics cards in their system.

**Skyrim Benchmark**

To get a better sense of the Boost's performance, we run a benchmark test using Skyrim. The results show that the Boost is pulling ahead, with a clear winner emerging after just two tests. However, as we continue to run more tests, the difference between the two cards becomes less pronounced, and we're left wondering if there's really a winner here.

**3D Mark 30 Benchmark**

Next up, we tackle the 3D Mark 30 benchmark test. The results are telling: the Boost is blowing away the 670 in both graphic scores for regular fire strike demo and the extreme demo. This suggests that the GTX 650 TI Boost is significantly outperforming the ASUS DX2 GT K 670.

**Fire Strike Demo**

We take a closer look at the graphic score for the regular fire strike demo, which shows the Boost barely breaking 6,000 points, while the 670 manages around 5,600 points. The extreme demo results are even more impressive, with the Boost delivering a score of 2,807 and the 670 trailing behind by just a single frame.

**The Verdict**

After analyzing our test results, it's clear that the GTX 650 TI Boost in 2-way SLI is the clear winner here. While scaling performance may be an issue for some users, the Boost's raw power and consistency make it a compelling choice. However, if you're looking for a hassle-free experience with a single graphics card, you may want to consider other options.

**The Questions Remain**

So, what do our readers think? Would they choose two of these cards for the same price or even cheaper than a GTX 670, knowing that they would outperform the 670? Or would they opt for a single card configuration simply to avoid the hassle of having two graphics cards in their system? The debate is ongoing, and we want to hear from you. Share your thoughts in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going guys so as many of you already know Nvidia has recently released their GTX 650 TI boost and this is essentially a massive performance increase from the GTX 650 TI and that this card is much more ready out of the box for 1080 resolution gaming whereas you still could do some 1080 gaming on the 650 TI except it just wasn't a huge performer in that Arena you kind of had to uh make sure that you weren't playing any graphically intensive games um or that you you really just had to bump the resolution down so in order to uh meet that 1080 gaming resolution requirement I guess you could say uh Nvidia has definitely made some sizable adjustments to this card with the 650 TI boost uh in that it comes default with a 2 gigs frame buffer so this is a reference card design I have right here just comes with two gigs right out of the box um and aside from that it's got a wider memory bus interface 192 as opposed to 128bit with a GTX 650ti uh aside from that it's just got a higher clock frequency in general uh it's it's got uh nvidia's GPU boost 1.0 that is but the one feature that sets this card apart from the 650 TI that I'm going to be focusing on more today is its SLI compatibility um so you I actually have a second GTX 650ti boost right here also another reference card uh designed so I'm going to be stacking them up in two-way SLI running some benchmarks I'm also going to run some single card benchmarks with a 650 TI boost boost it's boost uh and uh even going deeper than that that's what she said uh I'm going to be stacking these two cards up against a GTX 670 why a 670 well because one of these cards right now will cost you about 170 on newegg.com give or take 10 20 bucks depending on which manufacturer you get it from so if you put two of these cards you get two of these cards on New Egg that's what 340 so if you have 340 bucks 400 bucks lying around you could either get two of these GTX 650 TI boosts and put them in SLI or you can get about one GTX 670 so I figure if the prices are about the same between those two configurations the performance should theoretically be more or less the same with that said why don't we get into the hardware I'm using and so we can see some out of the boox performance uh once again or I didn't mention this before I'm not overclocking at all in this video uh my Asus DirectX cu2 card is completely at stock clock frequency I'm just checking out of the box performance and we can see how these two configurations stack up against each other uh with the games that I've tested so let's take a look at the hardware all right so I'm rocking my personal system at home so everything within the Corsair 600t I've got a 2600k overclocked at 4400 MHz p8 z68 V Pro motherboard 16 gigs of engin Ram at, 1600 megga transfers per second and I'm not going to bore you with the rest of the specs there you can read uh you can see all the uh graphics card specs that I'm using in these tests to the right once again everything's at stock clock frequencies if you want to see any more specs on these cards any more info you can check the links in the description below uh and once again all these tests are run at 1920 by 1080 uh so the F for the first test Assassin's Creed 3 you can see some uh very uh close neck and neck results with the 650 TI boost into asli against the 670 from 50 .1 to 51.2 uh this is pretty negligible I think it's it's kind of inconclusive could be just margin of err I could run this test again and see the complete opposite uh with a 650ti boost and 2 a SLI pulling ahead of the 670 uh so I'm not really going to give either of these cards uh a point right now because I I consider this a tie um but uh here you can see a little bit of scaling performance pretty decent amount it's not the best but it's not the worst either with a 650 TI boost going from 36.9 to 50.1 let's see if we can see any differences in the next test if there's a clear winner and yes there is for Battlefield 3 you can see 95 frames per second with a 650 TI boost in 2 asli uh I'm just going to start calling it boost you guys know what I mean when I say boost I don't want to keep saying 662 TI boost in 2 okay so the Boost in 2 AI got 95 frames per second against 76.2 with the 670 clearly a winner here we have our first point awarded to the six J now I can't stop saying 6 we have our first point awarded to the Boost in 2li uh and look at that scaling for performance that's just a massive scaling performance right there that's almost that's almost 100 right there that's almost 100% scaling so awesome scaling for the for the Boost in 2way SLI uh and we have a clear winner here once again with six with the with the Boost I I can't talk right now uh Borderland 2 here we go this is uh definitely a point for the 670 92.6 awesome frames per second right there and uh 79.6 with the Boost in 2-way uh 39.1 I mean just look at that scaling guys that's that's crazy scaling once again Almost 100% scaling there uh with the boosties um once I forget to mention I think you guys know by now maximum temperatures are listed in red next to the graphics card names um and keep in mind the ACU stu2 really good cooler it's going to be keeping thermals really uh to a minimum there uh whereas with the boost reference card designs right blower style fan en closed shroud temps are going to be a little bit hotter um it's actually funny the the single card temps were L higher than the two-way s atts for the Boost uh but you know who knows strange things are happening um but uh there you go there's a point for the 670 um so I think we have a tie right now I think the first Assassin's Creed 3 was was a wash Battlefield 3 went to the the Boost in two a SLI and now we have a one point awarded to the 670 so let's see if we have a tiebreaker with Crisis 3 which we kind of do but kind of do not once again kind of like with Assassin's Creed 3 I would call this a wash this is pretty much a negligible difference with barely one frame basically one frame per second difference from 45.5 to 44.4 uh but look at that scaling that's over 100% scaling guys and I don't really say that or see that often uh but I guess it does happen cuz there you go um did get pretty darn hot though with the Boost in 2 a SLI at 83° Crisis 3 of course you know just a killer a GPU killer all those specs pretty much maxed out aside from smaa at 2x um very graphically intensive game uh the Boost single card just could not handle it that's pretty expected 21.3 frames sad face but here again we have another tie between the Boost in 2-way uh against the 670 Rock Cry 3 we see the the Boost uh in 2-way definitely pull ahead this time of the 670 giving another point to the Boost in 2A um so I think the score is two to one right now uh and look at that scaling once again God it scales so good oh 31.2 to 59 um just awesome awesome stuff here uh let's go to Hitman Hitman Absolution once again we see the Boost pull ahead in two-way over the 670 and now we're starting to see a clear winner here I think uh the more tests we go on we're starting to see wow the the Boost in 2way SLI is uh is definitely beating out the 670 on a more consistent basis right now and uh scaling isn't as great as we saw uh with the last few tests definitely not close to 100 but uh still not too shabby at all going from 42 to 71 still pretty darn good uh Skyrim I think this is our last real World gaming Benchmark for today um you can see it's almost neck and neck and I I almost want to say this is negligible oh I don't know is that is that too close too close to call a clear winner I think I think I can call that a winner I think I think that's a point for the the Boost in 2A that's three frames right there and even though they're at really high frame rates uh i' I've worked out a pretty consistent uh uh loop Benchmark Loop for Skyrim so I feel like if I ran this test 20 more times I'd probably get very very very similar results uh as the ones you see here so scaling clearly wasn't that great uh probably our least performance with scaling as we saw with the the Boost in 2A uh but with 127.5 frames per second can you really complain uh the answer is no so 30 uh 3D Mark 30 Mark uh 3D Mark we can see um once again the Boost the Boost is just blown the 670 out of the water I I ran the fire strike demo so the score you see on the left is the graphic score for regular fire strike so with a 6 6800 over the GT K 670s just barely breaking 6,000 points um definitely uh a clear winner there for the Boost uh and on to the right we see the graphic score for the fire strike extreme demo test which is basically just the more graphically intensive version I left out the overall score for the 3D Mark test just because it's uh it's it's also CPU uh limited um runs a lot of physics tests which are dependent on the CPU wanted to focus on the graphics card for for today so I just went with the graphics score uh but here with the the fire fire extreme demo uh you can see that the results here once again are very NE negligible and it's just barely 2807 to 2823 I mean that's there's there's no clear winner there at all but with the regular fire strike demo you can see a massive leap ahead from the 670 going to the Boost 2 asli all right guys so after taking a look at the performance results uh from the benchmarks I've run today uh you can see that there was a clear winner uh in this little Showdown if you will uh the GTX 650 TI boost won four of those rounds I believe out of eight I think eight uh whereas the 670 behind me the Asus dx2 while it did perform extremely well in those tests uh very playable frame rates and nearly everything it did uh still only only came out on top in one of those rounds there were two or three rounds that we did that uh there was just no clear winner the results were too similar so uh it was too uh inconclusive to decide a Victor either way um but uh what are your guys' opinions because um personally I've always been a fan of having a single card in my rig no matter what because I just feel like it's there's less maintenance there's less heat there's less power consumption and I don't have to worry about uh scaling performance uh because not all cards really scale all that well with all the games or applications that you're using them for uh but in my test these things the GTX 6 or GTI boost in 2way SLI scaled beautifully I mean some of the best scaling performance I've actually personally ever seen uh with a video card and that that goes for SLI and Crossfire ax um so what do you guys think uh if if you could get two of these cards for the same price or even a little bit cheaper than a GTX 670 um and you knew that they would outperform the 670 a little bit would you go for them uh you know or would you simply avoid them and go for a single card configuration simply to avoid the hassle of having two uh two gpus in your system I'd like to know leave all your thoughts in the comment section below and uh yeah thanks for watching thanks for watching uh give me a like And subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and until next time I'll see you guys in the next videohow's it going guys so as many of you already know Nvidia has recently released their GTX 650 TI boost and this is essentially a massive performance increase from the GTX 650 TI and that this card is much more ready out of the box for 1080 resolution gaming whereas you still could do some 1080 gaming on the 650 TI except it just wasn't a huge performer in that Arena you kind of had to uh make sure that you weren't playing any graphically intensive games um or that you you really just had to bump the resolution down so in order to uh meet that 1080 gaming resolution requirement I guess you could say uh Nvidia has definitely made some sizable adjustments to this card with the 650 TI boost uh in that it comes default with a 2 gigs frame buffer so this is a reference card design I have right here just comes with two gigs right out of the box um and aside from that it's got a wider memory bus interface 192 as opposed to 128bit with a GTX 650ti uh aside from that it's just got a higher clock frequency in general uh it's it's got uh nvidia's GPU boost 1.0 that is but the one feature that sets this card apart from the 650 TI that I'm going to be focusing on more today is its SLI compatibility um so you I actually have a second GTX 650ti boost right here also another reference card uh designed so I'm going to be stacking them up in two-way SLI running some benchmarks I'm also going to run some single card benchmarks with a 650 TI boost boost it's boost uh and uh even going deeper than that that's what she said uh I'm going to be stacking these two cards up against a GTX 670 why a 670 well because one of these cards right now will cost you about 170 on newegg.com give or take 10 20 bucks depending on which manufacturer you get it from so if you put two of these cards you get two of these cards on New Egg that's what 340 so if you have 340 bucks 400 bucks lying around you could either get two of these GTX 650 TI boosts and put them in SLI or you can get about one GTX 670 so I figure if the prices are about the same between those two configurations the performance should theoretically be more or less the same with that said why don't we get into the hardware I'm using and so we can see some out of the boox performance uh once again or I didn't mention this before I'm not overclocking at all in this video uh my Asus DirectX cu2 card is completely at stock clock frequency I'm just checking out of the box performance and we can see how these two configurations stack up against each other uh with the games that I've tested so let's take a look at the hardware all right so I'm rocking my personal system at home so everything within the Corsair 600t I've got a 2600k overclocked at 4400 MHz p8 z68 V Pro motherboard 16 gigs of engin Ram at, 1600 megga transfers per second and I'm not going to bore you with the rest of the specs there you can read uh you can see all the uh graphics card specs that I'm using in these tests to the right once again everything's at stock clock frequencies if you want to see any more specs on these cards any more info you can check the links in the description below uh and once again all these tests are run at 1920 by 1080 uh so the F for the first test Assassin's Creed 3 you can see some uh very uh close neck and neck results with the 650 TI boost into asli against the 670 from 50 .1 to 51.2 uh this is pretty negligible I think it's it's kind of inconclusive could be just margin of err I could run this test again and see the complete opposite uh with a 650ti boost and 2 a SLI pulling ahead of the 670 uh so I'm not really going to give either of these cards uh a point right now because I I consider this a tie um but uh here you can see a little bit of scaling performance pretty decent amount it's not the best but it's not the worst either with a 650 TI boost going from 36.9 to 50.1 let's see if we can see any differences in the next test if there's a clear winner and yes there is for Battlefield 3 you can see 95 frames per second with a 650 TI boost in 2 asli uh I'm just going to start calling it boost you guys know what I mean when I say boost I don't want to keep saying 662 TI boost in 2 okay so the Boost in 2 AI got 95 frames per second against 76.2 with the 670 clearly a winner here we have our first point awarded to the six J now I can't stop saying 6 we have our first point awarded to the Boost in 2li uh and look at that scaling for performance that's just a massive scaling performance right there that's almost that's almost 100 right there that's almost 100% scaling so awesome scaling for the for the Boost in 2way SLI uh and we have a clear winner here once again with six with the with the Boost I I can't talk right now uh Borderland 2 here we go this is uh definitely a point for the 670 92.6 awesome frames per second right there and uh 79.6 with the Boost in 2-way uh 39.1 I mean just look at that scaling guys that's that's crazy scaling once again Almost 100% scaling there uh with the boosties um once I forget to mention I think you guys know by now maximum temperatures are listed in red next to the graphics card names um and keep in mind the ACU stu2 really good cooler it's going to be keeping thermals really uh to a minimum there uh whereas with the boost reference card designs right blower style fan en closed shroud temps are going to be a little bit hotter um it's actually funny the the single card temps were L higher than the two-way s atts for the Boost uh but you know who knows strange things are happening um but uh there you go there's a point for the 670 um so I think we have a tie right now I think the first Assassin's Creed 3 was was a wash Battlefield 3 went to the the Boost in two a SLI and now we have a one point awarded to the 670 so let's see if we have a tiebreaker with Crisis 3 which we kind of do but kind of do not once again kind of like with Assassin's Creed 3 I would call this a wash this is pretty much a negligible difference with barely one frame basically one frame per second difference from 45.5 to 44.4 uh but look at that scaling that's over 100% scaling guys and I don't really say that or see that often uh but I guess it does happen cuz there you go um did get pretty darn hot though with the Boost in 2 a SLI at 83° Crisis 3 of course you know just a killer a GPU killer all those specs pretty much maxed out aside from smaa at 2x um very graphically intensive game uh the Boost single card just could not handle it that's pretty expected 21.3 frames sad face but here again we have another tie between the Boost in 2-way uh against the 670 Rock Cry 3 we see the the Boost uh in 2-way definitely pull ahead this time of the 670 giving another point to the Boost in 2A um so I think the score is two to one right now uh and look at that scaling once again God it scales so good oh 31.2 to 59 um just awesome awesome stuff here uh let's go to Hitman Hitman Absolution once again we see the Boost pull ahead in two-way over the 670 and now we're starting to see a clear winner here I think uh the more tests we go on we're starting to see wow the the Boost in 2way SLI is uh is definitely beating out the 670 on a more consistent basis right now and uh scaling isn't as great as we saw uh with the last few tests definitely not close to 100 but uh still not too shabby at all going from 42 to 71 still pretty darn good uh Skyrim I think this is our last real World gaming Benchmark for today um you can see it's almost neck and neck and I I almost want to say this is negligible oh I don't know is that is that too close too close to call a clear winner I think I think I can call that a winner I think I think that's a point for the the Boost in 2A that's three frames right there and even though they're at really high frame rates uh i' I've worked out a pretty consistent uh uh loop Benchmark Loop for Skyrim so I feel like if I ran this test 20 more times I'd probably get very very very similar results uh as the ones you see here so scaling clearly wasn't that great uh probably our least performance with scaling as we saw with the the Boost in 2A uh but with 127.5 frames per second can you really complain uh the answer is no so 30 uh 3D Mark 30 Mark uh 3D Mark we can see um once again the Boost the Boost is just blown the 670 out of the water I I ran the fire strike demo so the score you see on the left is the graphic score for regular fire strike so with a 6 6800 over the GT K 670s just barely breaking 6,000 points um definitely uh a clear winner there for the Boost uh and on to the right we see the graphic score for the fire strike extreme demo test which is basically just the more graphically intensive version I left out the overall score for the 3D Mark test just because it's uh it's it's also CPU uh limited um runs a lot of physics tests which are dependent on the CPU wanted to focus on the graphics card for for today so I just went with the graphics score uh but here with the the fire fire extreme demo uh you can see that the results here once again are very NE negligible and it's just barely 2807 to 2823 I mean that's there's there's no clear winner there at all but with the regular fire strike demo you can see a massive leap ahead from the 670 going to the Boost 2 asli all right guys so after taking a look at the performance results uh from the benchmarks I've run today uh you can see that there was a clear winner uh in this little Showdown if you will uh the GTX 650 TI boost won four of those rounds I believe out of eight I think eight uh whereas the 670 behind me the Asus dx2 while it did perform extremely well in those tests uh very playable frame rates and nearly everything it did uh still only only came out on top in one of those rounds there were two or three rounds that we did that uh there was just no clear winner the results were too similar so uh it was too uh inconclusive to decide a Victor either way um but uh what are your guys' opinions because um personally I've always been a fan of having a single card in my rig no matter what because I just feel like it's there's less maintenance there's less heat there's less power consumption and I don't have to worry about uh scaling performance uh because not all cards really scale all that well with all the games or applications that you're using them for uh but in my test these things the GTX 6 or GTI boost in 2way SLI scaled beautifully I mean some of the best scaling performance I've actually personally ever seen uh with a video card and that that goes for SLI and Crossfire ax um so what do you guys think uh if if you could get two of these cards for the same price or even a little bit cheaper than a GTX 670 um and you knew that they would outperform the 670 a little bit would you go for them uh you know or would you simply avoid them and go for a single card configuration simply to avoid the hassle of having two uh two gpus in your system I'd like to know leave all your thoughts in the comment section below and uh yeah thanks for watching thanks for watching uh give me a like And subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and until next time I'll see you guys in the next video\n"