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More than four months have passed since Nvidia’s Kepler architecture was introduced in GeForce GTX 680 (check out GeForce GTX 680 2 GB Review: Kepler Sends Tahiti On Vacation for more information on the design itself). In the five months since, we’ve seen Nvidia fill up the high-end space with its GeForce GTX 670 and GeForce GTX 690. However, GeForce GT 640 remains the only mainstream board with Kepler’s DNA in it. That leaves an almost-$300 range currently filled with older Fermi-based models, such as GeForce GTX 560, 570, and 580. No doubt, newer and more efficient Kepler-derived silicon will take the place of those cards, bringing us today’s GeForce GTX 660 Ti launch.

It’s common to see the same piece of silicon nipped and tucked to create products aimed at different price points. Companies like AMD and Nvidia play with clock rates, alter memory interfaces, and turn pieces of their GPUs on or off. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti employs the same GK104 processor as GeForce GTX 670. However, Nvidia cuts the card’s memory bus down from 256- to 192-bits and removes one of the GPU’s four render back-end clusters, leaving everything else intact.

We might have expected Nvidia to detune more of its GK104. However, GeForce GTX 660 Ti employs the same core and memory clocks as GeForce GTX 670. That is to say, like the 670, this new board features seven functional SMX blocks. Consequently, GeForce GTX 660 Ti comes equipped with 1344 CUDA cores and 112 texture units. Each of its three remaining ROP clusters output up to eight 32-bit pixels, totaling 24 pixels per clock. Moreover, three 64-bit memory interfaces aggregate to 192 bits. We expect to see GeForce GTX 660 Ti perform on-par with GTX 670 in compute-oriented apps, but not as well in games.

Beyond its general specifications, GeForce GTX 660 Ti offers the same GPU Boost functionality found on the GTX 670 and 680 cards, support for up to four displays, and TXAA in games that support the feature. Although those two higher-end boards support four-way SLI configurations, Nvidia cuts GeForce GTX 660 Ti back to a maximum of three cards, which is actually something we haven’t seen from the company before. Typically, at this price point, we’d expect a two-card maximum.

	GeForce GTX 670	GeForce GTX 660 Ti	GeForce GTX 580	Radeon HD 7950	Radeon HD 7870
Shaders	1344	1344	512	1792	1280
Texture Units	112	112	64	112	80
Full Color ROPs	32	24	48	32	32
Graphics Clock (Base)	915 MHz	915 MHz	772 MHz	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Texture Fillrate	102.5 Gtex/s	102.5 Gtex/s	49.4 Gtex/s	89. 6 Gtex/s	80 Gtex/s
Memory Clock	1502 MHz	1502 MHz	1002 MHz	1250 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	192.2 GB/s	144.2 GB/s	192.4 GB/s	240 GB/s	153.6 GB/s
Graphics RAM	2 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	1.5 GB GDDR5	3 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5
Die Size	294 mm2	294 mm2	520 mm2	365 mm2	212 mm2
Transistors (Billion)	3.54	3.54	3	4.31	2.8
Process Technology	28 nm	28 nm	40 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Power Connectors	2 x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin	1 x 6-pin,1 x 8-pin	2 x 6-pin	2 x 6-pin
Maximum Power	170 W	150 W	244	200 W	175 W
Price	$400	$300	N/A	$350	$300

Nvidia says GeForce GTX 660 Ti will sell for around $300, putting it up against AMD’s Radeon HD 7870. The GTX 660 Ti might suffer a narrower memory interface, but its fast 1502 MHz memory plays an important role in maintaining competitive levels of bandwidth. Pixel fillrate is lower on the new GeForce card, though.

According to Nvidia, it expects the GTX 660 Ti to beat AMD’s Radoen HD 7870, and even compete against Radeon HD 7950 (even though the Tahiti GPU-based Radeon wields notably more memory bandwidth).

In an attempt to sweeten the launch, Nvidia’s partners should be bundling a coupon for Borderlands 2 with GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards. That’s a $60 value, according to the pre-order pricing.

MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti Power Edition

There isn’t a reference version of GeForce GTX 660 Ti. So, MSI sent over two of its GeForce GTX 660 Ti Power Edition boards for testing single-GPU- and SLI-based performance.

MSI’s interpretation of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is a little more expensive than what Nvidia told us to expect. It sells for $310 instead of $300. The extra $10 pays for a faster 1019 MHz base clock (typically able to boost to 1097 MHz), an aftermarket Twin Frozr IV cooler, what MSI markets as its military-class components, and control over three voltage levels (GPU, memory, and VDDCI).

As expected, we see the same output options as Nvidia’s reference GeForce GTX 670: two dual-link DVI connectors (one DVI-I and one DVI-D), a single HDMI port, and one DisplayPort output. The card can handle up to four screens in desktop mode, three in Surround mode, and a 3×1 + 1 combination (three monitors in Surround mode and the fourth in desktop mode). And, unlike most of AMD’s Radeon cards, utilizing DisplayPort isn’t a requirement for gaming across three panels.

The card’s PCB measures 9.5” x 4.5”, which is the same as Nvidia’s reference specification and identical to the similarly-priced Radeon HD 7870. Two six-pin auxiliary power connectors combine to deliver the 190 W specified by MSI. That’s 40 W higher than Nvidia’s specification, and likely a result of more aggressive factory overclocking. Nvidia points out that, if you forget to attach those power leads, the card will boot to a warning screen.

MSI’s Twin Frozr IV cooler consists of a four-heat pipe system with two 80 mm fans. Company representatives claim that its design discourages dust build-up, though we can’t speak to that specifically, given limited testing time. We can, however, confirm that the card is quiet and cool-running, which we’ll quantify in our thermal and acoustic testing.

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EVGA GTX 660 Ti Review: Kepler Rendered Affordable

At a Glance

Expert’s Rating

Pros

Makes desktop Kepler graphics more affordable
Compact and power-efficient

Cons

GPU compute performance lower than the competition

Our Verdict

The new GTX 660, as EVGA envisions it, represents a seductive upgrade for users of older graphics cards.

Nvidia has been getting a lot of mileage out of the Kepler desktop GPU, using the chip in the GTX 670 and GTX 680 graphics cards, and bringing it back once again in the new GTX 660 Ti. Although the GTX 670 had one functional block disabled, the GTX 660 Ti cuts just a single key feature: one of the memory controller blocks. This design change reduces the data width to memory to 192 bits wide, in contrast to the 256-bit pathways available on the GTX 670 and GTX 680. Since the ROP (raster operations) unit is part of that block, the ROP units now number 24 instead of 32. The clock rate is a little lower as well.

Speeds and Feeds

Let’s take a quick look at how the GTX 660 Ti differs from its pricier cousins. Note that the listed clock frequencies are for eVGA’s GTX 660 Ti SC model, which is clocked slightly higher than Nvidia’s reference card. Other shipping retail boards may differ in clock frequencies, depending on the design of the board and what each company wants to support. The target price for the base GTX 660 Ti is $299; the superclocked eVGA model we tested is priced at $310 (prices are as of August 16, 2012).

Feature	eVGA GTX 660 Ti SC	GTX 670	GTX 680
Graphics cores	1344	1344	1536
Texture units	112	112	128
ROPs	24	32	32
Base clock frequency	980MHz	915MHz	1006MHz
Boost clock frequency	1059MHz	980MHz	1058MHz
Memory (frequency)	2GB (1502MHz)	2GB GDDR5 (1502 MHz)	2GB GDDR5 (1502 MHz)
Memory interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Transistor count	3. 5 billion	3.5 billion	3.5 billion
Display connectors	2 x Dual Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2	2 x Dual Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2	2 x Dual Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2
Power connectors	2 x 6-pin PCIe	2 x 6-pin PCIe	2 x 6-pin PCIe
Thermal design power (TDP)	150W	170W	195W

Those are the base specs in a nutshell. It’s time to check out how our test board performed.

Performance

We collected performance data by using FutureMark’s 3DMark 2011 and four DirectX 11 games: Crysis 2, Dirt Showdown, Metro 2033, and Batman: Arkham City. We ran the game tests at 1920-by-1200-pixel resolution with 4x multisampling antialiasing enabled. In addition, we measured system power, under idle and load, using a Watts Up Pro power meter. The system we used for testing carried a Core i7-3960X CPU running at 3.3GHz, as well as 12GB of DDR3 memory running at 1600MHz. The power supply, motherboard, and other hardware remained constant during the entire run; so too did the operating system, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

I compared the eVGA GTX 660 Ti SC’s performance with that of AMD’s similarly priced Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, in the form of the Asus HD 7870 DirectCU II. I didn’t have time to rerun all the benchmarks with the older GTX 560 Ti, but initial testing indicates that the 660 Ti is definitely a step up in performance.

The eVGA card easily won the 3DMark 2011 synthetic test. Although 3DMark 2011 isn’t comparable to actual games, it does test most DirectX 11 features.

In Batman: Arkham City, the GTX 660 Ti won out over the Radeon by about 10 percent, which is a pretty substantial difference.

In Crysis 2, the difference in performance between the eVGA and Asus cards was smaller than in Arkham City, but still worth noting.

In the Metro 2033 test, the roles reversed slightly, with the GTX 660 Ti running just a bit slower than the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition.

What gives? In this game the Asus Radeon card pulled out a big win over the GTX 660 Ti. However, in this case the difference is not purely attributable to a graphics issue. Dirt Showdown uses Microsoft’s DirectCompute interface to perform some serious floating point calculations for two key features: global illumination and advanced lighting. The AMD GPU is substantially better at pure computation than the Nvidia chip is, which gives the AMD product an edge. Note that most games have yet to make heavy use of the GPU in general compute tasks, so it’s unlikely you’ll see big differences, and the GTX 660 Ti tends to perform better in games that don’t make heavy use of GPU compute.

It’s impressive how idle power usage has improved on all the current-generation cards. We saw little practical difference in power usage between these two cards.

Final Thoughts

Priced at $310, the eVGA GTX 660 Ti SC is aimed at gamers who want to get very good performance without spending $400 or more for a high-end card. Such users tend to hold on to their cards for two or three years, so they’re probably upgrading from an older GTX 260 card. In those cases, the GTX 660 Ti offers reasonably substantial performance gains, as well as the ability to run DirectX 11 titles.

The card is surprisingly compact for its performance, and should fit in most midsize-tower cases—even those lacking the depth to handle more-robust cards. Power supply requirements should be modest, too: A good 500W PSU should do the trick.

The eVGA GTX 660 Ti is efficient and compact, and it offers very good performance at its price. If you’re a serious PC gamer with a limited budget, and if you have been making do with a two-year-old card, it’s time to think seriously about upgrading.

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EVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti SUPERCLOCKED+ 3072MB Specs

GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Weight	2.4 lb (1.09 kg)
Dimensions (L x W x H)	25.4 cm x 3.81 cm x 11.18 cm 10 in x 1.5 in x 4.4 in
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This EVGA graphics card doesn’t meet the recommended system requirements for GTA 5 but it can play the game with lowered settings.

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EVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti SUPERCLOCKED+ 3072MB Features

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CUDA Cores: 1344
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Review

Manufacturer: Nvidia
UK Price (as reviewed): approx £250 (inc VAT)
US Price (as reviewed): approx $299 (ex TAX)

Whilst we’ve been impressed with Nvidia graphics cards this year thanks to its Kepler GPU’s power efficiency and turbo-boosting performance, it’s not exactly been in a hurry to fill out its product line. It took AMD just three months to release its 7-series product stack from top-to-bottom, but we’ve been waiting five months since the launch of the GTX 680 2GB for this, what is arguably the most important card in Nvidia’s product line-up, the GTX 660 Ti 2GB.

Custom board-partner versions of cards will be available on launch day

However, those hoping for a sub-£200 card in the vein of both the GTX 460 1GB and GTX 560 Ti 1GB of years past will be disappointed, as the GTX 660 Ti 2GB is set to arrive at e-tailers today for around £250. This will no-doubt leave some deflated (and leave yet more awaiting the inevitable and cheaper GTX 650 Ti), as we know many were hoping for a card substantially cheaper than Nvidia’s current high-end offerings.

While the price-tag isn’t the most wallet friendly , there’s a simple reason for the high price; the GTX 660 Ti 2GB is far from a gutted version of its pricier siblings, and shares a great deal of their Kepler pedigree.

So, what’s different?

As with the GTX 690 4GB, GTX 680 2GB and GTX 670 2GB, the GTX 660 Ti 2GB is based around the GK104 version of the Kepler architecture, with the larger and more powerful GK110 GPUs (the direct follow-on to the GTX 580’s full-fat Fermi design) all siphoned off into Nvidia’s Tesla K20 cards.

There’s a great variety available already when it comes to PCB size and coolers, as this super-short 180mm-long Zotac amp! edition shows.

This means there’s not a great deal for Nvidia to cut from the chip, and as such, GTX 660 Ti 2GB is a very similar GPU to its siblings. Like the GTX 670 2GB, it’s had one of its SMs (streaming multi-processors disabled), dropping the stream processor count from the 1,536 of the GTX 680 2GB to 1,344. The architecture still uses a four GPC (graphics processor cluster) layout though, so there are still four rasterisers per GPU.

The GTX 660 Ti 2GB even shares the same clock speeds as the GTX 670 2GB, shipping with a turbo-boosting base clock of 915MHz and a guaranteed boost clock of 980MHz, although as we’ve seen, cards more often than not, boost considerably higher than this depending on cooling.

Click to enlarge — The Full Kepler architecture of the GTX 680 2GB (left) and cut-down version used in the GTX 660 Ti 2GB (right). Note the disabled memory controller, SM and ROPs.

Nvidia has had to make cuts somewhere to justify the GTX 660 Ti 2GB’s reduced price though, and it’s come by disabling one of the card’s four 64-bit memory controllers. This reduces the memory interface to 192-bit and even with 1.5GHz frequency memory (6GHz effective), the resultant memory bandwidth is a limited 144GB/sec. Switching off a memory controller has also made the ROPs (render out-puts) servicing it redundant, dropping the active ROP count from 32 to 24.

Despite disabling a memory controller though, the GTX 660 Ti 2GB retains the 2GB of memory of its stable-mates. This is done by allowing the GPU to support mixed density GDDR5 modules, or in practise, to connect 1GB of GDDR5 to one of the three remaining memory controllers by double-stacking GDDR5 modules on both sides of the PCB. It’s a similar system to that used by Nvidia with its GTX 550 Ti 1GB cards and a clue as to where this card might have featured in Nvidia’s product stack had the GTX 680 2GB packed a GK110 GPU instead of a GK104.

Cards such as PNY’s GTX 660 Ti 2GB XLR8, use the same PCB and cooler as the GTX 670 2GB, but still offer factory overclocks. It’s going to be hard to find a non-overclocked version.

As the GTX 660 Ti 2GB is very similar to the GTX 670 2GB many board partners have been able to simply use their GTX 670 2GB PCBs with 660 Ti chips instead. The card still requires a pair of 6-pin PCI-E connectors, but its total TDP is a reduced 150W, down from the 170W of the GTX 670 2GB and 195W of the GTX 680 2GB. Partners have been given free-reign from day one to launch custom PCB and factory overclocked versions of the GTX 660 Ti 2GB and we’ll look at a couple of examples over the next few pages. There will be some card’s based on the same stock design as the GTX 670 2GB though, with PNY one such supplier.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Specifications

	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 2GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 4GB
GPU
Codename	GK104	GK104	GK104	2 x GK104
Base Clock	915MHz	915MHz	1,006MHz	915MHz
Boost Clock	980MHz	980MHz	1,058MHz	980MHz
Stream Processors	1344	1344	1536	1536
Layout	7 SMs, 4 GPCs	7 SMs, 4 GPCs	8 SMs, 4 GPCs	2 x 8 SMs, 4 GPCs
Rasterisers	4	4	4	2 x 4
Tesselation Units	7	7	8	2 x 8
Texture Units	112	112	128	2 x 128
ROPs	24	32	32	2 x 32
Transistors	3. 54 Billion	3.54 Billion	3.54 Billion	2 x 3.54 Billion
Die Size	294mm²	294mm²	294mm²	2 x 294mm²
Process	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
Memory
Amount	2GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5	2GB GDDR5	2 x 2GB GDDR5
Frequency	1.5GHz (6GHz effective)	1.5GHz (6GHz effective)	1.5GHz (6GHz effective)	1.5GHz (6GHz effective)
Interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	2 x 256 bit
Bandwidth	144 GB/sec	192 GB/sec	192 GB/sec	2 x 192 GB/sec
Card Specifications
Power Connectors	2 x 6-pin PCI-E	2 x 6-pin PCI-E	2 x 6-pin PCI-E	2 x 8-pin PCI-E
Stock Card Length	240mm	240mm	257mm	279mm
TDP	150W	170W	195W	300W
Typical Street Price	£250	£300	£400	£840

1 — Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Review2 — MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Power Edition Review3 — Zotac GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB amp! Editon Review4 — Test Setup5 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Battlefield 3 Performance6 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Crysis 2 Performance7 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Dirt 3 Performance8 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Skyrim Performance9 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Power and Thermals10 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Overclocking11 — GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB — Performance Analysis and Conclusion

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Performance

1. GPU clock speed

980MHz

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has a higher clock speed.

2.GPU turbo

1058MHz

When the GPU is running below its limitations, it can boost to a higher clock speed in order to give increased performance.

3.pixel rate

27.4 GPixel/s

The number of pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.

4.floating-point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Floating-point performance is a measurement of the raw processing power of the GPU.

5.texture rate

110 GTexels/s

The number of textured pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.

6.GPU memory speed

1502MHz

The memory clock speed is one aspect that determines the memory bandwidth.

7.shading units

Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors within the graphics card that are responsible for processing different aspects of the image.

8.texture mapping units (TMUs)

TMUs take textures and map them to the geometry of a 3D scene. More TMUs will typically mean that texture information is processed faster.

9.render output units (ROPs)

The ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, writing the final pixel data to memory and carrying out other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the look of graphics.

Memory

1.effective memory speed

6008MHz

The effective memory clock speed is calculated from the size and data rate of the memory. Higher clock speeds can give increased performance in games and other apps.

2.maximum memory bandwidth

144GB/s

This is the maximum rate that data can be read from or stored into memory.

3.VRAM

VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of a graphics card. More VRAM generally allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.

4.memory bus width

192bit

A wider bus width means that it can carry more data per cycle. It is an important factor of memory performance, and therefore the general performance of the graphics card.

5.version of GDDR memory

Newer versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher transfer rates that give increased performance.

6.Supports ECC memory

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC

Error-correcting code memory can detect and correct data corruption. It is used when is it essential to avoid corruption, such as scientific computing or when running a server.

Features

1.DirectX version

DirectX is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.

2. OpenGL version

OpenGL is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.

3.OpenCL version

Some apps use OpenCL to apply the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions introduce more functionality and better performance.

4.Supports multi-display technology

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC

The graphics card supports multi-display technology. This allows you to configure multiple monitors in order to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as having a wider field of view.

5.load GPU temperature

A lower load temperature means that the card produces less heat and its cooling system performs better.

6.supports ray tracing

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC

Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.

7.Supports 3D

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Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D display and glasses).

8.supports DLSS

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an upscaling technology powered by AI. It allows the graphics card to render games at a lower resolution and upscale them to a higher resolution with near-native visual quality and increased performance. DLSS is only available on select games.

9.PassMark (G3D) result

This benchmark measures the graphics performance of a video card. Source: PassMark.

Ports

1.has an HDMI output

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Devices with a HDMI or mini HDMI port can transfer high definition video and audio to a display.

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4.DisplayPort outputs

Allows you to connect to a display using DisplayPort.

5.DVI outputs

Allows you to connect to a display using DVI.

6.mini DisplayPort outputs

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EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked Video Card Review

NVIDIA is rounding out their Kepler lineup today, releasing their mid-range GTX 660 Ti. We’re taking our first look at it courtesy EVGA’s GTX 660 Ti SC (Superclocked) card.

When you’re done with this review, be sure to head over and check out our other launch-day review of MSI’s GTX 660 Ti Power Edition.

Introducing the NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti GPU

Before getting to the card itself, we were part of a conference call with NVIDIA to talk about their new baby. Since the Kepler launch, they’ve released high-end card after high-end card and they say they’ve been bombarded with constant requests for a new mid-range offering like the GTX 560 Ti. Gamers want their price-for-performance and they thought the GTX 660 Ti was going to be it. Now that it’s here, NVIDIA thinks they’ve answered that call.

One of the first things NVIDIA points out in their press kit is that PC gaming is doing quite well, thank you very much. PC game software is projected to be a $22+ billion industry in 2015, an increase of almost five billion over 2012 projections. The next time someone tells you “PCs are dying”, tell them to get their nose out of their iPad for a minute and look at the rest of the world.

PC Gaming Sales (Courtesy NVIDIA)

The GTX 660 Ti GPU is based off the same Kepler GK104 silicon we’ve seen in the GTX 670 and 680. Stock base clock and boost clock are much lower than what you’ll see in overclocked cards on the market, with some models coming in with over 1 GHz base clock. The 660 Ti has one less SMX unit than the GTX 680 and shares the same number of CUDA cores as the GTX 670. One big difference is the memory bus, which has been dropped to 192-bit. Even so, the cards will come with 2 GB of memory clocked at a very respectable 6008 MHz.

NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti Specifications (Courtesy NVIDIA)

NVIDIA wouldn’t release a card without showing some numbers of their own and here they’ve compared it to the direct competition – the HD 7870 (we’ll be doing the same). In the games they’ve chosen, you can see there are healthy increases across the board in NVIDIA’s internal testing.

NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti vs. AMD HD 7870 (Courtesy NVIDIA)

Impressively, the same game list shows the GTX 660 Ti actually beating out the higher-priced HD 7950.

NVIDIA GTX 660 Ti vs. AMD HD 7950 (Courtesy NVIDIA)

One thing NVIDIA stressed in their call with the press was TXAA. Essentially, it’s MSAA with post processing borrowed from the film industry. Combined, they do add a lot of ambient realism to titles that use it. While screenshots can show the difference somewhat, it’s in video that the real benefits come to light, thus we share this video NVIDIA was kind enough to supply.

It’s certainly better looking and anything that adds eye candy is a welcome addition.

The GTX 660 Ti is not a new architecture, so there isn’t a whole lot of detail to go into on the GPU itself. Suffice to say, Kepler has already proven a worthy competitor to Tahiti. The GTX 660 Ti is here to fill out the middle-of-the-road offering to the existing line, and we’re here to see if it holds its own.

As a side note, if anyone is in the market for the GTX 660 Ti after you read this review, NVIDIA has partnered with the game studio that produced Borderlands 2 to supply a free copy of the game to anyone purchasing any GTX 660 Ti-based card from major e-tailers (Newegg is included in that list).

EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked Features & Specifications

EVGA’s GTX 660 Ti Superclocked card is actually one of the lower-clocked of the overclocked GTX 660 Ti offerings launching today, with a base clock of 980 MHz and a boost clock of 1059 MHz. The 2 GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at reference 6008 MHz.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked Specifications & Features

There will be a reference EVGA card for $10 less than this card with the reference 915 MHz base / 980 MHz boost. While you can expect reference cards from most manufacturers, if the press documentation from NVIDIA is any indication, overclocked cards will be the norm for the GTX 660 Ti lineup. Here is this overclocked card’s stock GPUz screenshot.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC – Stock GPUz

Like the GTX 670 before it, the specifications don’t exactly tell the whole story when it comes to boost clocks. Recording frequency via GPUz for a run of 3DMark 11 showed the card’s normal boost frequency to actually be quite a bit higher at a very nice 1175 MHz.

One important “feature” of EVGA cards is their excellent warranty. EVGA has rolled out a new Global Warranty policy and it contains some changes customers have been seeking.

Most EVGA products now carry a 3 Year Warranty (also upgradable to 5 or 10 years upon registration).
Product warranty covers the product, not the user.
Registration is no longer required for RMAs with our Guest RMA process.
Step-Up and Extended Warranties will be available for all original owners registered with the new global RMA system within 30 days of the purchase.
If you move, you can send your product back to your local warranty center no matter what region you purchased it in.
A new Standard Cross-Shipping RMA service is available.
More details about the warranty can be found here.

One of those points most important for many of our readers is that the “product warranty covers the product, not the user”, so all of you who like to resell your cards can use that as a selling point.

Packaging & Accessories

EVGA has a good looking box that feels minimalistic, but just flashy enough. I’m a big fan of the carbon fiber look, both on the box and the card itself.

The card comes encased in molded plastic that protects it quite well in shipping.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Box	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Box
EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Box Rear	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Casing

The Superclocked version comes with several accessories. You get the typical manual, quick start guide and reference sheets. There are also three stickers, two with EVGA’s “enthusiast built” logo (one for black cases, one for white) and a carbon fiber & silver case badge. There is also an EVGA poster that’s not photographed.

As far as electronics go, with the lower wattage PSU requirement for the GTX 660 Ti, it’s reasonable to think not everyone’s PSU will come with two six-pin PCIe power connectors. EVGA thought ahead and included two MOLEX-to-six pin PCIe adapters to help with that. They’ve also included a DVI-to-VGA adapter for those with older monitors.

Accessories

It’s a solid accessory stack for this level of card. One thing that isn’t here is a driver CD, which will ship with the final versions. Ours doesn’t include one because NVIDIA hadn’t released the final driver until a day after the card shipped last week.

Meet the EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC GPU

Now we get to see the main event – the EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked GPU. It’s a good looking card all around, with a nice carbon fiber and brushed metal look.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC

Of course, none of my reviews are complete without copious amounts of photos! Enjoy the glamour shots.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Rear
EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Side	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Side/Rear
EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC
EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC

It’s a good looking card all around. While the shroud is plastic, it pulls off the brushed-metal plus carbon fiber look successfully.

At their price point, these will probably be a strong candidate for SLI in quite a few builds. If you look back at the side view, you can see EVGA has gently sloped the cooler at the fan to allow air to get between cards, even if your PCIe slots are close together. In the same photo, you can also see the dual 6-pin PCIe power connectors.

One thing more observant readers will notice is the presence of two SLI connectors. NVIDIA confirmed the GTX 660 Ti can indeed run in tri-SLI. This is an interesting and welcome choice, considering the previous cards at this level in the last couple of years (GTX 560 Ti & GTX 460) could only run dual-card SLI.

Enough talking about the exterior though, let’s rip this thing apart!

Under the Hood

You saw it in NVIDIA’s specifications, but here’s photographic verification that the GTX 660 Ti comes complete with four video outputs – two DVI (one DVI-I, one DVI-D), one HDMI and one DisplayPort.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Video Outputs

Tearing into the EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC, in addition to plenty of screws holding the cooler on, you can see it comes with a pressure bracket on the rear to hold the GPU cooler snug against the GPU.

Like the reference GTX 670, the GTX 660 Ti is not a full-length PCB card, stopping about 2/3 of the way down the cooler. Some manufacturers will take advantage of this with non-reference coolers that are about the same length as the card. While these are beneficial if card length is an issue, they will exhaust the hot air into your case (which can be a problem in SFF -Small Form Factor- builds).

EVGA’s method extends the card a bit with the cooler, but pumps the hot exhaust right out of the case, which is a boon to SFF cooling. SFF water builds will also benefit from the GTX 660 Ti’s diminutive size.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Disassembled

The front and back of the packed PCB is well assembled with no visible flaws. While NVIDIA says there actually are differences between the GTX 670 and GTX 660 PCB, the normal person would be hard pressed to actually find them.

You can see four blank memory sockets in addition to the eight (six front, two back) filled with chips. Some manufactures (including EVGA) will be producing models with 3 GB of memory instead of the reference 2 GB. EVGA’s cards will cost you an extra $30 for the extra gigabyte of memory.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Bare

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Rear

Moving on to the cooler, you can see it is made with a small copper and aluminum slug inside the plastic fan shroud. The cooler is secure inside and has anti-vibration dampening around it to keep things quiet. As you can see though, it is removable.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Cooler

Cooler Disassembled

EVGA has chosen to use the reference cooler for this card, with a shroud of their own design. There’s definitely not much to this cooler, but it’s light and efficient for what it is. In a world with vapor chambers and heatpipes galore, you can’t help but be a little disappointed – ok, a lot disappointed – with this heatsink’s build. There is at least a small slug of copper to more efficiently pull the heat from the GPU and put it into the aluminum, but that’s it.

I’d strongly prefer to have seen a vapor chamber here, but not to be unfair, this GPU is cool running and doesn’t need one with the currently available power target control limit and no voltage control. With a TDP as small as the card itself – 150 W – this will be adequate, if not particularly great, to cool the GPU.

Thus, be prepared to use the fan control in PrecisionX to keep your GPU at reasonable temperatures. Thankfully, for a squirrel cage fan design, it isn’t very loud at all.

Fan and Shroud	Heatsink on Card
Heatsink Itself	Nothing Fancy Here

On the plus side, there is a nice and large aluminum heatsink on the power section to keep it plenty cool while it does its job. The heatsink interface is a thermal pad and there is good contact throughout.

MOSFET Heatsink

Good Heatsink Contact

The power section on this reference card consists of six total phases. There are four phases to power the GTX 660 Ti GPU and two (with less impressive chokes as a cost-saving measure) to power the GDDR5 memory.

GPU Power Section

GDDR Power and Controller

Power Section Head-On

Now we get to the GTX 660 Ti GPU itself. Based on the same GK104 silicon as the GTX 670 and GTX 680 before it, the GTX 660 Ti comes complete with seven SMX units, 1344 CUDA cores (the same number of CUDA cores as the GTX 670), 112 texture units and 24 ROPs. The memory bus is reduced to 192-bit in the GTX 660 Ti and comes with 2 GB of 6008 MHz, GDDR5 Hynix memory.

GTX 660 Ti GPU	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC
Hynix GDDR5 Memory	Gratuitous GTX 660 Ti Photo

So far we have a card that sure looks like it will pack a pretty strong punch in a very small, efficient package. Let’s install it and see what we can do with it!

Test Setup

The test setup for this review includes an ASUS motherboard, 3770K Ivy Bridge CPU and G.Skill Ripjaws X memory.

CPU	i7 3770K
MB	ASUS Maximus V GENE
RAM	G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-2133
GPU	EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC
OS	Windows 7 Professoinal x64

The cards we’re comparing have been tested at the same settings, but on different motherboards per the Overclockers’ Updated Video Card Testing Procedure.

Some solid competition in the hole for you today, from slightly below the GTX 660 Ti’s targeted 7870 to the top of the line Kepler lineup.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC

It fits the mATX Maximus V GENE like a glove.

EVGA Software

EVGA has a nice software suite to go with their cards. OC Scanner helps you flesh out stability of your card and benchmark it at the same time. It also comes with EVGA NV-Z, which is similar to GPU-z, but has more graphical flavor and a lot more detail about your card.

EVGA OC Scanner & Settings

EVGA NV-Z

PrecisionX has come a long way since they introduced it a few years ago, from the small, rectangular program with a couple sliders of yesteryear to the souped-up GUI you see today. They even have a custom GTX 660 Ti skin for your viewing pleasure. MSI Afterburner seems to be an overclocker favorite, but PrecisionX does a great job holding its own. Had I an EVGA card, this is the program I’d use to overclock it.

EVGA PrecisionX 660Ti

One thing that I didn’t screenshot is the available fan curve control. You can see the button in the lower right in the fan speed section. There, you can control at what temperature your fan spins up to what speed percentage. As mentioned before, you are definitely going to want to use this feature to keep your GPU cooler than the default BIOS prefers.

Working together, you can see PrecisionX handling the overclocking, OC Scanner torturing the card with the fuzzy E and NV-Z monitoring it all.

EVGA Software Working Together

Solid software to go with what looks like a stout little card. Time to start seeing how it performs!

Cooler Performance & Power Consumption

Now we get started with performance testing. Before seeing how many FPS the card can muster, we’ll check out how hot it can get and how many watts it pulls. Temperatures are measured using the default fan profile on a given card. Boot into OS, run benchmark, record results.

EVGA GTX 660Ti SC Cooler Performance

As you can see, the temperature at idle is fine but it heats up to zomg-it’s-hot levels in short order. One thing to note is that the actual temperatures on the card were 75.0 °C in both tests; the numbers here are adjusted for ambient. If ambient was 25 °C on the dot, I’m reasonably certain the card would have been at 75 °C. This appears to be a function of the card’s BIOS programming – once it gets to 75 °C, it adjusts fan speed to make sure temps don’t go any higher.

While that’s okay per the GPU’s specifications, I’d prefer to keep it a bit cooler. Remember what I was saying about using PrecisionX to control the fan’s speed with a custom fan curve? This is why.

In the interests of full disclosure, after extended running at 75 °C, I actually saw artifacting when benchmarking. This was due to a single board defect. NVIDIA is taking the card to investigate and having EVGA ship a replacement. Rest assured, if this is a problem, you’ll hear about it in the comments. For now, we can chalk it up to a single card that has a defect that causes artifacting below its rated 98 °C thermal threshold. Repeat: This is a one-off defect and no GTX 660 Ti card should experience any issues below its rated threshold.

In any case, the card is efficient enough to run cooler and the heatsink can cool it just fine, so for heaven’s sake, cool the poor thing! With PrecisionX, I could use a fan curve to keep the GPU much happier in the mid-sixty’s no problem. The temperatures here are not a factor of the less-than-stellar cooling solution, which really is up to the task. Rather, they are a factor of the card’s BIOS preferring silence to temperature control. The fan isn’t even that loud. (Even if it was, we’re overclockers…lower temps are > absolute quiet most of the time!)

Enough about temperatures though. One thing NVIDIA is proud of with this card is its efficiency, and indeed it is quite impressive.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Power Consumption

The GTX 670 sipped power, but this one barely drinks any at all. In both tests, power consumption comes in over 30 W lower than the GTX 670. The wattage drops in Heaven and 3DMark 11 equate to 14% and 11%, respectively. That’s quite impressive by any standards, especially if it performs near the levels of its big brother.

What’s most impressive is that you could run a full on Ivy Bridge system with a good GPU (at 4 GHz) with a meager -but quality!- 450 W PSU and have plenty of room to spare for overclocking.

Overclocking

Like the Kepler cards that come before it, overclocking these will be mostly a factor of the quality of the GPU itself. There is no voltage control to speak of, just the same +23% Power Target adjustment (at least on this card; some, like the MSI card Lvcoyote reviewed, do have minor voltage control available).

Cranking the power target up to 123% did allow a surprising overclock though, especially for this tier of card. The GTX 660 Ti SC managed a +120 MHz GPU overclock and a +100 MHz memory overclock.

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC – 24/7 Overclock

After monitoring throughout testing runs, what those offsets really mean in practical use is an effective boost clock of 1263 MHz. That’s very impressive; indeed it was more than expected from an already overclocked card.

So now we know how hot it gets, how much wattage it pulls and how far it’ll clock for 24/7 stable use. It’s time to see how the GTX 660 Ti performs!

Performance Results

Before getting into real-world game usage, we’ll have a look at some synthetic tests. By the way, all of the tests you’ll see are run according to our video card testing procedure mentioned earlier.

Synthetic Tests

The first test is an oldie but a goodie. It’s long in the tooth, but still does a solid job of showing GPU power, especially multi-card scaling. That said, remember, it’s old…nobody optimizes cards for this specifically any more. While it’s going to be good to show these for the benchmarking crowd, don’t focus too much on 03.

3DMark03

Well, a 3DMark03 powerhouse it is not. It does show a stark difference from its bigger brethren and itself though. While the GTX 670 DirectCU II was within spitting distance of the GTX 680 Lightning, the GTX 660 Ti SC comes in about 15% less than the GTX 670 (11% when overclocked).

Moving on to something more modern -people do still use DX10 games after all-, we have 3DMark Vantage.

3DMark Vantage

Well look at that; the GTX 660 Ti shows an impressive gain over its targeted competition (that’s the HD 7870, for anyone not paying attention). It straight up trounces the HD 7870 and even beats the HD 7950…at stock! Overclocked just brightens the outlook, bringing it close to the GTX 670.

3DMark 11

Here it goes, rocking the competition again. This is no mere inching above the HD 7870, it’s a two thousand point walloping. It beats the HD 7950 handily as well. Overclocked comes very near to the GTX 670.

HWBot Heaven Benchmark

In this last of the synthetic tests, again we see the GTX 660 Ti SC taking the 7870 to the house. It’s closer, but even the overclocked HD 7870 can’t get to the stock GTX 660 Ti. The HD 7950 flexes its muscle a bit in this one and the rest of the GTX line is a bit out of reach here.

Game Tests

On to the real world, where we’ll see how the newbie performs in our six game tests. All of the settings for these tests are found in the testing procedure article, but quickly, everything here is run at 1920 x 1080 (1080p) with all eye candy maxed out.

In alphabetical order, we begin with the Aliens vs. Predator DX11 Bench.

Aliens vs. Predator DX11 Benchmark

Here the market target is dead on, with the HD 7870 just edging out the GTX 660 Ti. The HD 7950 and GTX 670 are both in their proper market segment as well.

Batman: Arkham City

Things swing the other way in Batman: Arkham City, with the HD 7870 on the just-shorter-end of the stick. Here again, we see the GTX 660 Ti very close to the GTX 670. Bear in mind, there is a pretty strong stock overclock on the ASUS GTX 670 Direct CUII TOP as well, so keeping up with that card is more impressive than it may seem at first.

As a side note, NVIDIA requested I run Batman: Arkham Asylum at 4x MSAA instead of our typical 8x just to see what happened. It was impressive, coming in at 84 FPS with the card at stock. Truthfully, I’m hard pressed to tell the difference between 4x and 8x MSAA at 1080p. You might be able to see it if you focus on certain aspects in a scene and take a screenshot, but who’s going to do that? No, you’re going to play the game, and with MSAA turned down to 4x, you will get very high framerates.

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 shows the GTX 660 Ti strongly overtaking the HD 7870 and even approaching the HD 7950 when overclocked. There’s no question which card is better for the Battlefield 3 gamer.

Civilization V

Civilization V shows another strong GTX 660 Ti performance over the HD 7870. Strangely, this card lost a tad when overclocked. I ran the bench again to verify and the result remained the same.

Dirt 3

Dirt 3 really likes this card, with another solid win over the HD 7870. While some benchmarks and games show the GTX 660 Ti keeping up with its big brother, I think the pattern we’re seeing shows that they are appropriately in their market segments.

Metro 2033

Last, but not least, is the GPU torturing Metro 2033. Rarely will you find a game that tests GPUs as much as this one. People used to ask “But can it play Crisis?”…more appropriate now is “But can it play Metro?” Here the GTX 660 Ti comes out just ahead at stock and just behind overclocked, neck and neck with the HD 7870.

While the card with a target on its back (HD 7870) and the GTX 660 Ti traded blows, I think four wins, one narrow loss (AvP) and one draw (Metro 2033) show the GTX 660 Ti coming out pretty clearly ahead in its market segment.

NVIDIA Surround Testing

These tests were run simply because I have the ability. Make no mistake, if you want to run Surround at good quality, you will need two of these. Additionally, if you’re going to run Surround, the reduced 192-bit memory bus is going to come into play at 5760 x 1080 resolution (at which these tests were run, with all eye candy maxxed).

EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC Surround Testing

As you can see, the GTX 670 comes out a good bit ahead, relatively speaking. The memory bus issue is a big one with Surround. While it will “run” the games, memory will be a problem.

For instance, when loading up Civilization V, you can actually watch the late game view bench being drawn. Some of the characters show up, with a majority of the screen just gray boxes everywhere. Then, over the next six to eight seconds or so, you watch as the screen draws itself, right-to-left quickly about an eighth of the vertical screen each. Bottom to top so you see approximately eight right-to-left sweeps as it builds the scene into memory.

That’s the most stark example, but it shows that the memory bus does indeed come into play when you’re talking about moving into a Surround setup.

Pushing the Envelope

Before we’re finished, it’s always fun to push a card to its absolute limit. With NVIDIA’s Kepler cards, there isn’t any real voltage to add per se, but when benchmarking, you can usually squeeze a little bit over a 24/7 stable overclock. Oh, and we’ll crank the CPU up to 5.0 GHz as well for good measure.

From oldest to newest, 3Dmark03 will start us off, completing with an overclock of +145 MHz on the GPU and +125 on the memory for a much improved score of 103624.

3DMark03 – 103624

3DMark Vantage was the least of the three benchmarks here, completing at +130 GPU / +120 memory for a nice 33876 3D marks.

3DMark Vantage – 33876

Last up is 3DMark 11, which completed slightly higher than Vantage, with a final overclock of +140 GPU / +120 memory. The GTX 660 Ti couldn’t quite break the 10,000 mark, but it was awfully close.

3DMark 11 – 9724

Overall some impressive numbers for a card in its price range and market segment.

Final Thoughts & Conclusion

The GTX 660 Ti – specifically, the EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC – is a very strong little GPU. It has low power consumption and by many measures, gives a thorough beat-down to the competition’s HD 7870, occasionally even coming out ahead of the more expensive HD 7950.

Didn’t I mention price yet? This particular version (Superclocked) has an MSRP of just $309.99, right where it should be for this sweet spot, mid-range card. EVGA has a six-card range coming out. There will be the stock-clocked card at $299.99 and one higher-clocked card, the FTW, coming in at $329.99. In addition to those three, there are three identical models equipped with 3 GB of memory. To get the 3GB card prices, you simply add $30 to the purchase price of the three cards mentioned earlier.

The competition’s HD 7870 sells right now for anywhere from $269.99 to $359.99, making the GTX 660 Ti perfectly positioned to jump into the market at its price and performance level. Given an identically priced HD 7870, I’d gladly recommend the GTX 660 Ti over it. The performance gain is just too good to pass up if they are priced the same. Even with a deep discount to $250 with rebate on some HD 7870s, the performance gain should make you at least consider shelling out the extra fifty bucks.

In the press call with NVIDIA, they stressed that they wanted to design a card at a reasonable price that can play pretty much any game at 1080p with all the eye candy you could want. In that, they have definitely succeeded with the GTX 660 Ti. The only game in our test suite you couldn’t play with every setting cranked at 1080p is Metro 2033, and we all know that’s pure torture on any GPU.

Now, specific to the EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC, I’m admittedly a little torn. The warranty EVGA offers is worth a lot in itself, so you have to take that into consideration. What doesn’t exactly enthrall me is the cooler. It’s my biggest – indeed my only – hangup about this card. If other manufacturers were charging high premiums for cards with better coolers on them it wouldn’t give me pause, but at least ASUS is offering a card with a DirectCU II cooler for merely $5 more. MSI pricing is likely similar for their better cooler too.

There is one big plus to this kind of cooler that you won’t get with the others – the GPU’s hot air is exhausted right out of your case. There is definitely something to be said for that, especially for anyone with a SFF build. So that’s a decision I leave to you – if you want an upgraded cooler, look elsewhere. If you’re ok with a squirrel-cage-fan style cooler, this is a very solid card that will treat you well. Remember, this card is efficient and the cooler it ships with will keep it as cool as you need it to for safe operation. However, I do wish EVGA would consider coming out with something in between this and a water block, for all levels of card.

After thinking long and hard about the cooler though, you definitely need to consider EVGA’s solid service and excellent warranty. Considering that, plus the card’s great performance for its price leads me to easily call the EVGA GTX 660 Ti SC and, indeed, the GTX 660 Ti itself, Overclockers Approved.

–Jeremy Vaughan (hokiealumnus)

Now that you’ve been introduced to the GTX 660 Ti, be sure to go check out Lvcoyote’s review of the MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition!

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NVIDIA has given its partners extensive rights to change the reference design of graphics cards based on the GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics core. The result was not long in coming, and several dozen «non-reference» versions of this solution appeared on the market. We have already tested some of them, namely MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti Power Edition OC, MSI GeForce GTX 660 Ti Twin Frozr OC, Palit GeForce GTX 660 Ti JetStream and ZOTAC GeForce GTX 660 Ti AMP!. Video adapters were very different from each other, both in the design of printed circuit boards and in cooling systems. However, they all showed very good results, justifying the popularity of the graphics core in question in the price range from $300.

ASUS also did not stand aside and presented nothing less than five graphics cards based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti. All of them are manufactured on a single platform — a Taiwanese manufacturer’s own printed circuit board and are equipped with a proprietary DirectCU cooling system of the second version. The comparison table shows the main differences between the five modifications available as of April 2013:

Model	ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II	ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II OC	ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II OC Game	ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP	ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP Game
Product code	GTX660 TI-DC2-2GD5	GTX660 TI-DC2O-2GD5	GTX660 TI-DC2OG-2GD5	GTX660 TI-DC2T-2GD5	GTX660 TI-DC2TG-2GD5
Core clock (including GPU Boost technology), MHz	915 (980)	967 (1058)	967 (1058)	1059 (1137)	1059 (1137)
Memory frequency (type), MHz	6008 (GDDR5)	6008 (GDDR5)	6008 (GDDR5)	6008 (GDDR5)	6008 (GDDR5)
Features	–	–	game coupon included	–	game coupon included
Cooling system	DirectCU II	DirectCU II	DirectCU II	DirectCU II	DirectCU II
Approximate market value, $	314	321	333	326	338

In addition to the basic version with the GTX660 TI-DC2-2GD5 index, there are two additional versions of video cards: ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II OC and ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP. As can be seen from the table, their main difference lies in the frequency of the GPU. Two more modifications are accompanied by a gift voucher that allows you to download the game Borderlands 2 for free from the Internet. Without a full set of the above graphics adapters, we cannot talk about any other differences.

This review will consider the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP video card, which has a number of unique advantages, in addition to not repeating the «reference» solution proposed by NVIDIA.

Model	ASUS GTX660 TI-DC2T-2GD5 (ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti (GK104)
Number of shader processors	1344
Number of texture processors	112
Number of raster operation blocks	24
Core operating frequency, MHz	1059 (1137 with GPU Boost)
Size (type) of memory, GB	2 (GDDR5)
Real (effective) memory frequency, MHz	1502 (6008)
Memory bus width, bit	192
Bus interface	PCI Express 3. 0 16x
Outlets	1x DVI-D 1x DVI-I 1x HDMI 1x DisplayPort
Cooling system	Dual slot active
Supported APIs	DirectX 11.1 OpenGL 4.3
Supported Technologies	GPU Boost, Adaptive V-Sync, NVIDIA PhysX, CUDA, NVIDIA SLI, NVIDIA 3D Vision
Dimensions (with cooling system), mm	273 x 130
Minimum power supply requirement, W	450
Drivers	The latest drivers can be found on the ASUS website.
Manufacturer website	ASUS

All prices for Asus+GTX660+TI-DC2T-2GD5

GPU frequency NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP increased by 244 MHz (2 144 MHz GPU Boost technology) compared to the value recommended by the graphics core manufacturer. In addition, the video adapter has a proprietary design of the DirectCU II cooling system, an element base corresponding to the Super Alloy Power concept, 2 GB of GDDR5 video memory and support for all modern NVIDIA technologies.

Packing and contents

ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP comes in a horizontally oriented large cardboard box with strong and thick walls.

The package design is standard; ASUS also uses it for the older line of products based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670/680 video processors. The front side shows an image of the second-generation DirectCU dual-fan cooling system, and also lists the main features of this model: factory overclocking, 2 GB GDDR5 memory, DIGI + VRM digital power system and proprietary GPU Tweak software.

The back of the box contains a brief specification of the video adapter in twelve different languages, including Russian. Here you can also see the connection diagram of displays to the output connectors of the video card and a more detailed description of the features of the graphics accelerator.

ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card is packaged in an antistatic bag and tightly fixed in a propylene mold. Including:

installation and operating instructions;
software disk;
DVI/VGA adapter;
power adapter from two 4-pin peripheral connectors to 6-pin PCI-Express.

Appearance

The discreet protective casing of the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP video card is made of plastic and decorated with three parallel red stripes. The length of the considered video accelerator is 273 mm, the height is 130 mm. However, these figures are given taking into account the rather big DirectCU II cooling system, which has two fans and thick heat pipes peeking out from the sides. The real dimensions of the printed circuit board are very modest, given the class of the video adapter, only 234 x 112 mm. This solution will fit into any medium-sized case and will take up two expansion slots once installed.

The placement of components on the back of the video card is completely different from NVIDIA’s standard design. On the reverse side of the printed circuit board, two memory chips are installed, and there are also seats for two more chips. They are used in higher performance series of graphics adapters.

Similar to other video cards based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti core, the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP supports NVIDIA SLI and NVIDIA 3-Way 9 technologies0031 SLI.

There are two six-pin connectors located at the top of the board to connect additional power to the video card. In order to make it easier to disconnect the power cables from the power connectors, plastic clips are placed on the reverse side of the board and have special slots in the textolite. Green LEDs are provided next to the connectors, which light up when additional power is connected.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP Video Adapter Interface Panel has a heat exhaust grille and the following video outputs: one DVI-D, one DVI-I, one full HDMI and one full DisplayPort. Digital resolution reaches 2560 x 1600 pixels, analog — 2048 x 1536 pixels. The video card supports the HDCP 1080p protocol. The maximum number of simultaneously connected and used displays is four pieces, three of which can be combined using NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology to display panoramic stereoscopic images.

The video card cooling system used is universal, that is, ASUS develops it for several series of graphics adapters at once. As a result, in order for the base of the cooling system to coincide with the video processor, it had to be noticeably moved along the printed circuit board.

A stiffening rib runs along the upper edge of the PCB to protect the video card from possible bending.

Component base

The ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics card uses a unique printed circuit board with components corresponding to the company’s exclusive technology called Super Alloy Power, which provides greater durability, faster performance and less heating of the elements.

The power node transistor assemblies are covered by an additional heatsink, which is blown by a fan located just above it.

The video card has a seven-phase (6+1) power supply. The six-phase GPU converter is controlled by a discrete digital controller labeled DIGI+ ASP1212. Memory power is based on a single-phase voltage regulator.

The total video memory of the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP graphics adapter is 2 GB. There are six Hynix H5GQ2h34AFR R0C memory chips on the front side of the PCB, and two more are soldered on the reverse side. The effective memory frequency is 6008 MHz.

The video adapter in question uses an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics processor manufactured using the 28 nm process technology. It has a 192-bit memory bus, 112 texture units, 24 raster units, and 1344 shader pipelines. The core frequency is 1059 MHz. With the help of GPU Boost technology, under high load, the frequency of the GPU can increase up to 1137 MHz.

Cooling system

The cooling system of the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP video card is based on a massive heatsink made of thin aluminum plates. The plates have a very complex, stepped shape. This reduces the resistance to airflow and improves the performance of the radiator.

A separate small heatsink is provided to cool the power node transistor assemblies.

A special role in the cooling system is played by three 8 mm nickel-plated copper heat pipes. Their central parts sit very tightly in the grooves of the aluminum base of the radiator and directly contact the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti GPU die.

Direct contact technology improves the rate of heat removal from the core and its transfer to remote areas of the radiator. Two heat pipes are S-shaped and communicate with the heatsink at both ends.

Two 11-blade FirstD FD7010h22S fans with impeller diameters of 74 mm are screwed into the plastic casing.

The second generation DirectCU cooling system turned out to be very interesting. Using the manufacturer’s utility GPU Tweak version 2.3.0.2, we will evaluate how this modification copes with the cooling of the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II TOP video adapter.

At the maximum load of the GPU, its frequency increased to 1188 MHz, and the temperature rose to 68 degrees. At the same time, the fan speed was automatically regulated and stopped at a value of 1320 rpm (39% of maximum). No noise was heard from them.

By raising the fan speed to the maximum possible value (3360 rpm), we have reduced the temperature of the GPU to 55 degrees. An excellent result, but the best part was that the noise level remained within the comfort zone, not standing out from the rest of the system.

In idle mode, the GPU frequency dropped to 324 MHz and the effective video memory frequency to 648 MHz. Core temperature set to 29degrees, the fans rotated at a frequency of 1110 rpm (30% of the maximum value).

Overview of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

NVIDIA today introduced another graphics card based on a 28-nanometer Kepler architecture GPU. Previously, those wishing to experience the benefits of the new developments of Californians had to allocate a tidy sum to purchase the appropriate device. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be of interest to those who do not miss iconic gaming hits, but are not ready to spend more than $400 on a graphics adapter. What is the novelty capable of and is it destined for the role of another hit? Let’s figure it out.

Switching to the new graphics architecture Kepler , NVIDIA started with older models, first introducing the flagship GeForce GTX 680 , and then the dual-chip GTX 690 and GTX 670 . The bet on top solutions with the maximum price tag turned out to be successful in the end — according to the results of the last quarter, the company managed to double its profit. In many ways, this was facilitated by the active position of NVIDIA in the segment of devices for mobile solutions, but the direction of discrete video cards also showed growth.

However, the company’s worthy financial performance is certainly good, but users are frankly waiting for more affordable, and at the same time, productive video cards based on Kepler architecture chips.

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1 GeForce GTX 660 Ti
2 Price

At first glance, the technical characteristics of the novelty are very similar to those for the GeForce GTX 670. In this case, the same graphics processor is used as for NVIDIA’s top solutions — GK104 with a crystal area of 294 mm² and 3.5 billion transistors on board . The base frequency of the chip, containing in this case 1344 computing units, is 915 MHz with a typical forcing using GPU Boost up to 980 MHz. The video card has on board 2 GB GDDR5, which, like the older models, operates at 6008 MHz. What are the differences from the top solutions? First of all, this is a reduced memory bus width — from 256 to 192 bits The result is a drop in throughput from 192 GB/s to 144 GB/s. Obviously, this will affect the performance of the video card, especially in high resolution modes and quality settings. However, for the GeForce GTX 660 Ti , the simplifications did not end there. Recall that the «full» GK104 contains 8 SMX modules, totaling 1536 computing units. It is these chips that are equipped with the top GeForce GTX 680, while in the GK104 used for the GeForce GTX 670, one SMX module with 192 stream processors. The same modification of the chip is also used for the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, however, in this case, the number of rasterization units (ROPs) has been reduced by a quarter — from 32 to 24, while the number of texture units (TMU) has remained at the same level — 112. The reduction in ROPs is somewhat will reduce the filling and rendering speed of pixels, which will also partly affect the overall performance of the video card.

As for the power consumption level, the video card claims TDP at 150 W , which is 20 W less than the GTX 670. At the same time, the requirement for the power supply recommended by the PSU developer is 450 W instead of 500 W. However, two six-pin 12V connectors are still used to connect additional power. The standard interface panel will contain two DVI (Dual-Link), HDMI and DisplayPort (1.2) connectors.

Video card specifications:

	GeForce GTX 670	GeForce GTX 660 Ti	GeForce GTX 580	Radeon HD 7950	Radeon HD 7870
Crystal name	GK104	GK104	GF110	Tahiti XT	Pitcairn
Manufacturing process, nm	28	28	40	28	28
Chip area, mm²	294	294	520	365	212
Number of transistors, billion	3. 54	3.54	3	4.31	2.8
GPU clock frequency, MHz	915/980	915/980	772	800	1000
Number of stream processors	1344	1344	512	1792	1280
Number of texture units	112	112	64	112	80
Number of ROPs	32	24	48	32	32
Memory (type, volume), MB	GDDR5, 2048	GDDR5, 2048	GDDR5, 1536/3072	GDDR5, 3072	GDDR5, 2048
Memory bus bit	256	192	384	384	256
Memory frequency, MHz	6008	6008	4008	5000	4800
Memory bandwidth, GB/s	192	144	192	264	154
Energy consumption, W	170	150	244	200	175
Recommended price	$399	$300	$350-450*	$349	$299

* — according to the catalog hotline. ua

Special PCB design for GeForce GTX 660 Ti was not developed. Given the use of GK104 and the similarity of the main technical characteristics, PCBs from the GeForce GTX 670 are suitable for these adapters. Video card manufacturers, of course, will not fail to take advantage of this opportunity. NVIDIA partners have already presented their adapter options, which are similar in appearance to the GeForce GTX 670.

It is curious that among the models announced at the launch, there are no modifications with recommended clock speeds. Video card manufacturers, at any opportunity, use the potential of the GK104, which is capable of operating at frequencies significantly higher than 1 GHz. Therefore, without great fear, higher values \u200b\u200bare set as the base ones.

Price

Now about the important thing — about the price. The cost of models on the reference design and recommended clock speeds is declared at level $300 . Obviously, the original models with factory overclocking and alternative COs will be slightly different in price and will rather lie in the range of $ 300-350 . The most nimble sellers will certainly want to skim the cream off the first deliveries, but they will not have much room for maneuver. For $400, faster GeForce GTX 670s are already offered, so GeForce GTX 660 Ti with a similar price tag will be doomed to wait on the shelves for the moment when the price matches the recommended one.

MSI N660Ti Power Edition 2GD5/OC

We studied the capabilities of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti using the MSI N660Ti Power Edition 2GD5/OC as an example. This modification of the video card uses the original printed circuit board, identical to that of the GeForce GTX 670 from the Power Edition line. Compared to the reference, this PCB has a reinforced seven-phase power supply subsystem (5 + 2) and converter components that comply with the Military Class III classification.

In the case of the «OS» variant, the base clock frequency of the chip has been increased from 915 to 1020 MHz (11.5%) while the average value of dynamic acceleration is also increased to 1098 MHz. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory runs at the recommended 6008 MHz (1502 MHz).

The video card is equipped with the Twin Frozr IV cooler, which has a familiar heatsink design with four nickel-plated heat pipes (2×6 mm + 2×8 mm). The structure is blown by two 80 mm axial fans.

The efficiency of the cooling system in this case was a pleasant surprise. Despite the fact that the forced modification of the Power Edition has an increased TDP of up to 190 W. The cooler does an excellent job of dissipating heat. In rest mode — 27 degrees and 1080 rpm, in heavy gaming mode — 61 degrees and only 1470 rpm, well, FurMark was able to warm up the chip to 67, while the fan speed increased to only 1590 rpm. Excellent results, especially considering that the noise level emitted by the video card during operation is below average.

Overclocking

Exploring the potential of the graphics chip, we managed to further increase the base clock frequency by 50 MHz — from 1020 MHz to 1070 MHz . At the same time, the memory worked stably at 7132 MHz (1783 MHz).

It is important to note that thanks to GPU Boost technology, the operating clock frequency of the chip under load almost always exceeds the base one. For example, with the declared nominal 1020 MHz, in most cases in games the core functioned at 1162 MHz. And these were not short-term bursts, but long time periods during which the implemented technology adjusted the parameters to obtain maximum performance. After increasing the nominal frequency from 1020 to 1070 MHz, the chip was automatically accelerated to 1228 MHz quite often.

The memory subsystem is perhaps not the strongest place even in top NVIDIA video cards. In the case of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, you can try to compensate for the reduced bus width by increasing the frequency. The theoretical memory bandwidth in normal mode (1502 MHz) is 144.2 GB / s, and after overclocking the memory to 1783 MHz, it increases to 171.2 GB / s, although this is still less than the GeForce GTX 670 (192 .3 GB/s). Let’s see how this affects performance.

The overclocking results of one video card are not enough to speak in general about the potential of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti. Nevertheless, the data obtained suggests that the novelty on the GK104 has good opportunities for further acceleration.

Test results

GeForce GTX 670 was chosen as a benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of the new product. The level of performance in relation to that of this video card will be a good indicator of the capabilities of the youngest modification based on the GK104 chip.

If we talk about the performance of the GTX 660 Ti in normal mode (915/6008 MHz), then, depending on the application, the lag behind the GTX 670 at a resolution of 1920 × 1080 is 5–25% (~15–18% on average). The increase in clock frequencies can significantly reduce the gap. After overclocking the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, in most cases it is possible to demonstrate results similar to the GTX 670. And, we must admit that a very decent level. Let’s not forget that the cost of the GTX 670 starts at $400, while the recommended price of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is much lower. With the announcement of the novelty, you can release top-end video cards with chips based on Fermi — GeForce GTX 580/570 without a twinge of conscience. Even in stock mode, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti often has the edge. The flagship on the GF110 in some cases can still compete with a daring newcomer, but considering the price it is given to him in all respects, it is obvious that the time has come for new heroes.

Comparing the performance of direct competitors from AMD and NVIDIA is traditionally not an easy task. Much here depends on the games used, the features of the engines of which may give preference to one or another graphic architecture. Against the closest devices in price, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti performs very well even in GCN-loyal applications — almost parity with the Radeon HD 7870 in Metro 2033 and 8% behind in AVP. If we consider the situation in other games and synthetic applications, then the younger model on the GK104 has an advantage even over the more expensive Radeon HD 79fifty.

Results

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti leaves a good impression. Decent level of performance at a very attractive price. Certain simplifications, of course, affected the performance in comparison with older video cards based on the GK104, however, when comparing the bars on the diagrams, one must also take into account the cost of the devices. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti significantly lowers the price of entry into the world of the latest graphics adapters — fast, functional and economical. And this is very good news for those who expected to re-equip their PC on the eve of the start of a hot gaming autumn, having spent about $300 on a video card.

AMD, although it has made a preemptive move by lowering the recommended price of the Radeon HD 7870 to $299 and the Radeon HD 7950 to $349, will not stop there. In particular, the company intends to revise the frequency formula for the Radeon HD 7950 by increasing the GPU frequency from 800 to 850 MHz. Moreover, the Power Tune algorithm will be activated, which, depending on the nature of the load, will automatically increase the frequency up to 925 MHz. The corresponding BIOS for video cards on the reference design is already available to everyone. As a result, all those who like to play comfortably will win, regardless of which video cards with chips from which developer they prefer.

MSI N660Ti Power Edition 2GD5/OC graphics card provided for testing by MSI, ua.msi.com

Test bench configuration

Processor	Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.5GHz	Intel, www. intel.ua
Cooler	Thermalright Archon Rev.A	«1-Incom», www.1-incom.com.ua
Motherboard	MSI Z77A-GD65 (Intel Z77 Express)	MSI, www.msi.com
RAM	Team Xtreem TXD38192M2133HC9KDC-L (2×4 GB DDR3-2133)	DC-Link, www.dclink.com.ua
Accumulator	Intel SSD 520 (SSDSC2CW240A3, 240 GB)	Intel, www.intel.ua
Power supply	Thermaltake Toughpower Grand TPG-1200M (1200W)	Thermaltake, www.thermaltakeusa.com

Review and tests of the GTX 660 Ti video card.

Nvidia has already made a big run with Kepler on desktop GPUs, with the chip in the GTX 670 and GTX 680 graphics cards, and is bringing it back again in the new GTX 660 Ti graphics cards. Although the GTX 670 had one bad function block, the GTX 660 Ti only has one important feature: one memory controller block. This design change reduces the memory data width to 192 bits, as opposed to the 256-bits found in the GTX 670 and GTX 680.

With remote control panel (raster operations) the device is part of this block, pH, u is now number 24 instead of 32.

Speed and Pitch

Let’s take a look at how the GTX 660 Ti differs from its expensive relatives. Note that the listed clock speeds are for the eVGA, GTX 660 Ti SC models, which are clocked somewhat higher than the Nvidia reference card. Others Retail boards may vary in clock speeds, depending on design and what each company wants to support. GTX 660 Ti-based price target $299; The superclocked eVGA model we tested is priced at $310 (prices as of August 16, 2012). Display connectors 2 x Dual-Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2 2 x Dual-Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1.4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2 2 x Dual-Link DVI, 2 x HDMI 1. 4a (Fast), 2 x DisplayPort 1.2 Power connectors 2 x 6-pin PCIe 2 x 6-pin PCIe 2 9096

These graphics card specs in a nutshell. It’s time to check how our test card performed.

Performance

We collected performance data using FutureMark-3DMark 2011 and four DirectX 11 games: Crysis 2, Dirt Showdown, Metro 2033, and Batman: Arkham City . We ran the games for testing at 1920 by 1200 pixels with 4x multisampling and anti-aliasing enabled. In addition, we measured the power consumption of the system, according to idle and load, using Watt Up Pro measurements. The system we used for testing is assembled from — Core i7-39 processor60X running at 3.3GHz and 12GB of DDR3 memory running at 1600MHz. The power supply, motherboard, and other equipment remain unchanged during the entire testing period, the operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

Compared to the eVGA GTX 660 Ti SC, let’s start with the fact that AMD’s similarly priced video card is the Radeon HD 7870 GHz, in the form of the Asus HD 7870 DirectCU II. I haven’t had time to restart all the indexes with an older GTX 560 Ti, but preliminary tests have shown that the 660 is definitely a step up in performance.

EVGA cards easily won the 3DMark 2011 synthetic test. Although 3DMark 2011 is not comparable to actual games, this test is most important for the DirectX 11 function.

with Radeon by about 10%, which is a pretty significant difference.

In Crysis 2, the performance difference between eVGA and the Asus card was smaller than in Arkham City, but still worth noting.

In the Metro 2033 test, the reverse slightly let us down, the GTX 660 Ti is slightly slower than the Radeon HD 7870 GHz.

What does it do? In this game, the Asus Radeon graphics cards got a big win over the GTX 660 Ti. However, in this case the difference is not purely graphical. » lighting. The AMD GPU is significantly better in pure computing than the Nvidia chip that gives the edge to the AMD product. Note that most games have made heavy use of the GPU in general for computing tasks, so it’s unlikely you’ll see much of a difference, and The GTX 660 Ti tends to perform better in games that don’t have heavy use of GPU computing.

Impressively, idle power usage has improved across all current generations of graphics cards. We saw little practical difference in power consumption between the two cards.

Final Thoughts

Priced at $310, the eVGA GTX 660 Ti SC is aimed at gamers who want very good performance without spending $400 or more for a high-end graphics card. or three years, so they probably won’t upgrade to an older GTX 260 graphics card. In those cases, the GTX 660 Ti offers a fairly substantial performance boost as well as the ability to run DirectX 11. fit into most mid-range cases, even those lacking the depth to handle more robust graphics cards. The supply voltage should be modest: a good 500W power supply is needed to do this trick. The EVGA GTX 660 Ti is efficient and compact, and delivers very good value for the price. If you’re a serious PC gamer on a budget, and if you can’t handle your old graphics card, it’s time to seriously consider upgrading.

[note]P.P.S. If you have questions, want to comment or share your experience, please write in the comments below. -17

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EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Why is the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti better than others?

Design requirements for heat dissipation (TDP)?
150W vs 191.42W
PassMark result (DirectCompute)?
2547 vs 2102.76
DVI outputs?
2 vs 0. 79
Multi-GPU?
3 vs 2.75
Width?
241mm vs 255.91mm
Height?
111mm vs 122.32mm

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Performance

1. GPU Clock Speed

915MHz

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has a higher clock speed.

2.turbo GPU

980MHz

When the GPU is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance.

3.pixel speed

25.6 GPixel/s

The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

4.flops

2.46 TFLOPS

FLOPS is a measurement of GPU processing power.

5.texture size

102 GTexels/s

Number of textured pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

6.GPU memory speed

1502MHz

Memory speed is one aspect that determines memory bandwidth.

7.shading patterns

Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors in a graphics card that are responsible for processing various aspects of an image.

8.textured units (TMUs)

TMUs accept textured units and bind them to the geometric layout of the 3D scene. More TMUs generally means texture information is processed faster.

9 ROPs imaging units

ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, such as writing the final pixel data to memory and performing other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the appearance of graphics.

Memory

1.memory effective speed

6008MHz

The effective memory clock frequency is calculated from the memory size and data transfer rate. A higher clock speed can give better performance in games and other applications.

2.max memory bandwidth

144GB/s

This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.

3.VRAM

VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of the graphics card. More VRAM usually allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.

4. memory bus width

192bit

A wider memory bus means it can carry more data per cycle. This is an important factor in memory performance, and therefore the overall performance of the graphics card.

5.GDDR memory versions

Later versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher data transfer rates, which improves performance.

6. Supports memory troubleshooting code

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Memory troubleshooting code can detect and fix data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server.

Functions

1.DirectX version

DirectX is used in games with a new version that supports better graphics.

OpenGL version 2.

The newer the OpenGL version, the better graphics quality in games.

OpenCL version 3.

Some applications use OpenCL to use the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions are more functional and better quality.

4. Supports multi-monitor technology

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

The video card is capable of connecting multiple displays. This allows you to set up multiple monitors at the same time to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as a wider field of view.

5. GPU temperature at boot

Lower boot temperature means the card generates less heat and the cooling system works better.

6.supports ray tracing

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections in games.

7.Supports 3D

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D screen and glasses).

8.supports DLSS

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an AI based scaling technology. This allows the graphics card to render games at lower resolutions and upscale them to higher resolutions with near-native visual quality and improved performance. DLSS is only available in some games.

9. PassMark result (G3D)

This test measures the graphics performance of a graphics card. Source: Pass Mark.

Ports

1.has HDMI output

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Devices with HDMI or mini HDMI ports can stream HD video and audio to the connected display.

2.HDMI connectors

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More HDMI connections allow you to connect multiple devices at the same time, such as game consoles and TVs.

HDMI version 3

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Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, resulting in higher resolutions and frame rates.

4. DisplayPort outputs

Allows connection to a display using DisplayPort.

5.DVI outputs

Allows connection to a display using DVI.

Mini DisplayPort 6 outputs

Allows connection to a display using Mini DisplayPort.

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Why is EVGA0 GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2 better than others?

Design requirements for heat dissipation (TDP)?
150W vs 191. 42W
PassMark result (DirectCompute)?
2547 vs 2102.76
DVI outputs?
2 vs 0.79
Multi-GPU?
3 vs 2.75
Height?
111mm vs 122.32mm

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0002 1124MHz

When the GPU is running below its limits, it can jump to a higher clock speed to increase performance.

3.pixel rate

29.3 GPixel/s

The number of pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

4.flops

2.81 TFLOPS

FLOPS is a measurement of GPU processing power.

5.texture size

117 GTexels/s

The number of textured pixels that can be displayed on the screen every second.

6.GPU memory speed

1502MHz

Memory speed is one aspect that determines memory bandwidth.

7.shading patterns

Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors in a video card that are responsible for processing various aspects of an image.

8.textured units (TMUs)

TMUs take texture units and bind them to the geometric layout of the 3D scene. More TMUs generally means texture information is processed faster.

9 ROPs

The ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, such as writing the final pixel data to memory and for performing other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the appearance of graphics.

Memory

1.memory effective speed

6008MHz

The effective memory clock frequency is calculated from the size and data transfer rate of the memory. A higher clock speed can give better performance in games and other applications.

2.max memory bandwidth

144GB/s

This is the maximum rate at which data can be read from or stored in memory.

3.VRAM

VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of the graphics card. More VRAM usually allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.

4. memory bus width

192bit

A wider memory bus means it can carry more data per cycle. This is an important factor in memory performance, and therefore the overall performance of the graphics card.

5.GDDR memory versions

Later versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher data transfer rates, which improves performance.

6. Supports memory troubleshooting code

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

Memory troubleshooting code can detect and fix data corruption. It is used when necessary to avoid distortion, such as in scientific computing or when starting a server.

Functions

1.DirectX version

DirectX is used in games with a new version that supports better graphics.

OpenGL version 2.

The newer the OpenGL version, the better graphics quality in games.

OpenCL version 3.

Some applications use OpenCL to use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing. Newer versions are more functional and better quality.

4.Supports multi-monitor technology

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

The video card is capable of connecting multiple displays. This allows you to set up multiple monitors at the same time to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as a wider field of view.

5. GPU temperature at boot time

Lower boot temperature means that the card generates less heat and the cooling system works better.

6.supports ray tracing

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows and reflections in games.

7. Supports 3D

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D screen and glasses).

8.supports DLSS

✖EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

9. PassMark result (G3D)

This test measures the graphics performance of a graphics card. Source: Pass Mark.

Ports

1.has HDMI output

✔EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

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Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, resulting in higher resolutions and frame rates.

4. DisplayPort outputs

Allows connection to a display using DisplayPort.

5.DVI outputs

Allows connection to a display using DVI.

Mini DisplayPort 6 outputs

Allows connection to a display using Mini DisplayPort.

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Passmark score
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU benchmark score
3DMark Vantage Performance test score
3DMark 11 Performance GPU benchmark score
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics test score

Passmark score

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+:
4281
Best score:
29325

Performance

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+:
1782
Best score:

Memory

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+:
511
Best score:

General Information

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+:
76
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EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ features:
211
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Description

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ graphics card based on Kepler architecture has 3540 million transistors, tech. process 28 nm. The frequency of the graphics core is 980 MHz. In terms of memory, 3 GB is installed here. DDR5, clocked at 1502 MHz and with a maximum throughput of 144 Gb/s. The texture size is 110 GTexels/s. FLOPS is 2.56.

In tests, the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ proved to be as follows — according to the Passmark benchmark, the model scored 4281 points. At the same time, the maximum number of points for today is 260261 points. According to the 3DMark benchmark, the video card scored 5323 points out of 49575 possible.
Directx version — 11. OpenGL version — 4.3. Regarding cooling, the heat dissipation requirements here are 150 watts.
In our tests, the video card scores 36454 points.

Why the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ is better than others

No merits

Passmark score 4281 . This parameter is lower than 36%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU test score 37003 . This parameter is lower than 27%
3DMark Vantage Performance score 23251 . This parameter is lower than that of 23%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU score 8247 . This parameter is lower than 27%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics 5323 test score. This parameter is lower than 33%
3DMark Fire Strike Score 4639 . This parameter is lower than 28%
Unigine Heaven 4.0 test score 759 . This parameter is lower than 12%
Unigine Heaven 3.0 test score 77 . This parameter is lower than that of 5%

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Memory

general information

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EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ Review Highlights

GPU base clock

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has a high clock speed.

980MHz

max 2457

Average: 938 MHz

2457MHz

GPU memory frequency

This is an important aspect calculating memory bandwidth

1502MHz

max 16000

Average: 1326. 6 MHz

16000MHz

FLOPS

A measure of the processing power of a processor is called FLOPS.

2.56TFLOPS

max 1142.32

Average: 92.5 TFLOPS

1142.32TFLOPS

Turbo GPU

If the speed of the GPU drops below its limit, it can switch to a high clock speed to improve performance.
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1058MHz

max 2903

Average: 1375.8 MHz

2903MHz

Texture size

A certain number of textured pixels are displayed on the screen every second.
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110 GTexels/s

max 756.8

Average: 145. 4 GTexels/s

756.8 GTexels/s

Architecture name

Kepler

GPU name

GK104

Shared memory

Memory bandwidth

This is the speed at which the device stores or reads information.

144GB/s

max 2656

Average: 198.3 GB/s

2656GB/s

Effective memory speed

The effective memory clock speed is calculated from the size and information transfer rate of the memory. The performance of the device in applications depends on the clock frequency. The higher it is, the better.
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6008MHz

max 19500

Average: 6984.5 MHz

19500MHz

RAM

3GB

max 128

Average: 4. 6 GB

128GB

GDDR Memory Versions

Latest GDDR memory versions provide high data transfer rates to improve overall performance
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Average: 4.5

Memory bus width

A wide memory bus indicates that it can transfer more information in one cycle. This property affects the performance of the memory as well as the overall performance of the device’s graphics card.
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192bit

max 8192

Average: 290.1bit

8192bit

Thermal Dissipation (TDP)

Heat dissipation requirement (TDP) — the maximum possible amount of energy dissipated by the cooling system. The lower the TDP, the less power will be consumed.
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150W

Average: 140.4 W

Manufacturing process

The small size of the semiconductor means it is a new generation chip.

28 nm

Average: 47.5 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

3540 million

max 80000

Average: 5043 million

80000 million

PCIe version

Considerable speed is provided for the expansion card used to connect the computer to peripherals. The updated versions have impressive throughput and provide high performance.
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Mean: 2.8

Width

241mm

max 421. 7

Average: 242.6mm

421.7 mm

Height

111mm

max 180

Average: 119.1mm

180 mm

DirectX

Used in demanding games, providing enhanced graphics

eleven

max 12.2

Average: 11.1

12.2

OpenCL version

Used by some applications to enable GPU power for non-graphical calculations. The newer the version, the more functional it will be
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1.1

max 4.6

Average: 1.7

4.6

Support 4K

You can view images in the highest quality

Yes

opengl version

Later versions provide quality game graphics

4. 3

max 4.6

Average: 4

4.6

Shader model version

5.1

max 6.6

Average: 5.5

6.6

Version Vulkan

1.1

CUDA Version

Yes

Has HDMI output

HDMI output allows you to connect devices with HDMI or mini-HDMI ports. They can transmit video and audio to the display.
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Yes

DisplayPort

Allows you to connect to a display using DisplayPort

one

Average: 2

DVI outputs

Allows connection to a display using DVI

Mean: 1. 4

HDMI

Yes

Passmark test score

4281

max 29325

Average: 7628.6

29325

3DMark Cloud Gate benchmark score GPU

37003

max 1

Average: 80042.3

3DMark Fire Strike Score

4639

max 38276

Average: 12463

38276

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics test score

5323

max 49575

Average: 11859.1

49575

3DMark 11 Performance GPU Score

8247

max 57937

Average: 18799. 9

57937

3DMark Vantage Performance score

23251

max 97887

Average: 37830.6

97887

Unigine Heaven 3.0 test score

max 60072

Average: 2402

60072

Unigine Heaven 4.0 test score

759

max 4818

Average: 1291.1

4818

Test score Octane Render OctaneBench

max 125

Average: 47.1

125

FAQ

How much RAM does the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ have

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ has 3 GB.

What version of RAM does the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ 9 have?2325

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SC+ supports GDDR5.

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