Graphics card round up March 2013

The Zotac box artwork is rather bland, I see no reason not to feature a high resolution image of the card itself in the upper half of the box, rather than ‘Its Time To Play'.

The bundle includes literature on the product and a software disc. There is also a power adapter cable and a video adapter cable included in the box.

The GTX650 is a tiny little card, with the large orange fan almost the same size as the PCB undernearth. This card is built around a black PCB and is dual slot.

There is a single 6 pin power connector on this card.

Two DVI output connectors, alongside a Mini HDMI port. I would rather have seen a single DVI connector with a full sized HDMI port, for convenience.

The Zotac GTX650 cooler is quite small, although this hardware doesn't really produce much heat.

The Zotac GTX650 is built around the GK107 core on the 28nm manufacturing process. The core is running at 1,072mhz an the memory at 1,250mhz (5Gbps effective). There are 384 CUDA Cores, 16 ROPS and 32 TMU's onboard. The 1GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a restrictive 128 bit memory interface.

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