When we recently reported on the coming launch of the mid-range card GeForce GTX 650 we were surprised by the severely crippled GK107 GPU. New sources suggests that GK106 is also coming and it will launch in the form of GeForce GTX 650 Ti.
Turkish rumor mill Donanimhaber has published new information on both GeForce GTX 650 and the earlier unknown GeForce GTX 650 Ti. As previously revealed little brother GTX 650 will be using Nvidia’s GK107 GPU with severely limited number of cores – 384 to be precise. Big brother GeForce GTX 650 Ti on the other hand will get the more powerful GK106 GPU, a circuits that is expected to appear and replace GF106 from the Fermi family.
GK106 will offer nearly three times as many cores and with 960 CUDA cores offer performance that will slide into the upper mid-range segment. The GPU will be paired with either 1 GB or 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory over a 192-bit memory bus, which should result in decent bandwidth.
The information from Donanimhaber points to that GK106 card may launch as GeForce GTX 660 and the exact specifications may change before launch. But as expected Nvidia will launch more Kepler-based graphics cards in the segment between GeForce GTX 660 Ti and GeForce GTX 650. The launch of GeForce GTX 650 Ti and GK106 will not happen until Q4 2012 though.
