Whereas we had previously crowned the GeForce GTX 670 the best value high performance graphics card money could buy, the GTX 660 Ti goes a step further in the price vs. performance rating. Based on current estimates we believe by the time you read this the Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti will be hitting shelves for around $300, making it roughly 33% cheaper than the GTX 670. This is amazing news for gamers as the GTX 660 Ti was only 13% slower on average than the GTX 670 in 16 games that we tested.
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ProX |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 08:15 AM
wow amazing value. It is hard to believe that Nvidia will release this card at $300, whats the point of the GTX 670 now? |
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psolord |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 09:35 AM
You have used the Deus Ex slide for all graphs in the overclocking section guys. Please fix. Good review. Thanks. |
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Steve Posts: 80 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 11:02 AM
Thanks psolord fixed now. |
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musso |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 11:11 AM
Really hope AMD come back with some price cuts fast. I want a 7950  Anyway very nice review, loved all the testing thanks. |
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seth |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 11:20 AM
So I was going to buy a gtx 670 next week and now I am not sure. Guess I will wait for the gtx 660 ti to hit shelves. |
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shark976 Posts: 2 Joined: 2012-08-16 |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 12:05 PM
Good job deleting my post. Since Legionhardware doesnt want you to know the truth, I'll just leave this chart here where the 7950 GE humiliates Nvidia's precious new baby http://www.xbitlabs.com/picture/?src=/images/graphics/geforce-gtx-660-ti/21_66vs795GE_big.png Back to the drawing board, Nvidia. Devastated again. |
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PUNISHER Posts: 1 Joined: 2012-08-16 |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 12:35 PM
Posted by shark976 on 08/16/2012 01:05 PM
Epic fail. Do you understand that HD 7950 GE is overclocked card? |
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shark976 Posts: 2 Joined: 2012-08-16 |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 12:58 PM
Haha another one. Ouch. Slower than 7870 at Tom's hardware: http://media.bestofmicro.com/9/V/348979/original/Average%20Perf.png "According to the settings we chose on a per-game basis, picked to maximize visual quality at playable frame rates, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is close to, if not slightly slower than a Radeon HD 7870. We already know this runs counter to Nvidia's expectations, which put the new card between AMD's Radeon HD 7870 and 7950. However, after comparing lab results, the outcome of our testing appears tied to the way we picked settings for each game, likely taxing the 660 Ti's memory bandwidth more than less-demanding options would. Perhaps our settings favor the Radeon cards. Perhaps theirs favor the GeForce-based boards. And maybe the most real-world outcome lies somewhere in between. But, I believe the truth is that GeForce GTX 660 Ti performs within 5%, plus or minus, of the Radeon HD 7870." Damn, that had to hurt, Nvidia! And Punisher, umm no. 7950 GE is just like Nvidia's boosted cards. It simply boosts up to 925 mhz when possible. So that makes all Nvidia's cards overclocked by your own standard. 7950GE or B is just AMD's response to 660 Ti. It's just AMD using the same tricks Nvidia already does with auto-overclocking cards. The key on 7950 GE will be pricing anyway. If it's priced too high it'll fail. If it's priced well it will do well. |
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Kaotik |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 02:48 PM
Since my last post got deleted, I'll try again - what's up with the Dirt 3 numbers? They definitely aren't run on the 12.7's the review claims to be using - all the other sites which have run Dirt 3 on the 12.7's have even normal 7970 beating or matching 670, yet here both 670 and 660Ti are beating even 7970GE |
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Tortuga |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 04:50 PM
Sort of agree with shark. It is mislead to put up benches from an older standard 7950, since they are downclocked and without the new bios. |
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RS Posts: 3 Joined: 2011-08-17 |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 05:34 PM
There is a reason this card is $299 and something NV won't tell you about it. The best case scenario is always going to be that the entire 192bit bus is in use by interleaving a memory operation across all 3 controllers, giving the card 144GB/sec of memory bandwidth (192bit * 6GHz / 8 ). But that can only be done at up to 1.5GB of memory; the final 512MB of memory is attached to a single memory controller. This invokes the worst case scenario, where only 1 64-bit memory controller is in use and thereby reducing memory bandwidth to a much more modest 48GB/sec. This pretty much means you won't be able to play games that use more than 1.5GB of VRAM on this card. GTX660Ti =! 2GB card. I think for overcockers, and people who want to keep the card for 2 years, 7950 is still the better option. |
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ProX |
Posted on: 08/16/2012 11:24 PM
@ shark976 - you are the biggest troll ever, hand pick your results why don't you LOL The 660 Ti smashes the 7870, there is no two ways about it. |