welcome to another lonus tech tips video card launch video so this one is for the
GeForce GTX 660 from NVIDIA we're going to be featuring The MSI twin frozer skew
this is a 2 gig card and it has as you
can clearly see their twin frozer 3
cooler so the twin frozer 3 cooler has all of the features of a twin frozer 4
except for one so I'm going to show you guys it's got dual fans of course it has
a super pipe thick fat heat pipe keeps the car nice and cool it has well okay
this is don't do this at home kids okay
grounding first of course propeller blade fans so that that the shape as
well as that coating on the tips makes it so that it does push more air it's
extremely quiet you can see we're running a game right now and I'm going to get my okay I was going to have you
move the opposite direction I'm going to stop talking and I want you to move really close to the card so you can see
even running a game it's like inaudible you can't even
hear the thing but it's missing the dust removal Tech where the fans counter spin
the wrong way and uh and remove some dust from the heat sink before it starts
so let's go into some of the details of the GPU itself so this is using a GK 106
core okay this is just the box so there's nothing really that special here
GK 106 core it's a Kepler based GPU so
this is a huge improvement over last generation cards which are based on the
fmy architecture so Kepler adds a whole bunch of stuff besides much better power
consumption and better performance Kepler also adds support you know well
okay the older cards support it too but innately for txaa FXAA so these are
additional anti-aliasing modes with FXAA being fantastic for lower performance
cards but maintaining a certain level of visual quality you've also got full
support for adaptive vsync and being a Kepler card you also have on the tiq so
the or rather not on the T on the 660 you've got support for up to four
displays out so if you come back here and have a look we've got two DVI ports
one HDMI and DisplayPort out which is going to give you three in NVIDIA
surround plus one auxiliary display to work with now the 660 only supports
two-way SLI so if you step up to a 660 Ti you have support for three-way SLI
but the 660 because it's not based on the gk104 but rather based on the GK 106
core only supports 2 asli it also has a
192bit memory bus which is the same as the GTX 66 GTI um and what that means is
NVIDIA is using their unique technology in order to achieve their even memory
amount so that's the 2 gig memory amount uh versus what you normally see with a
192-bit bus which is either 1.5 gigs or
3 gigs so that allows us to hit kind of a sweet spot and this brings me to one
of the major points before we get into the performance of the card too much
that I want to make versus its last generation uh contemporary the GTX 560
ti so these are the more price comparable cards necessarily than the
660 Ti to the 560 TI would be so this is
a 1 gig card you can buy 2 gig ones but the like the the normal one is a 1 gig
card and we observed so check this out so in the 660 is getting around 100 FPS
this is an ultra quality and the Older scrolls whatever it is Skyrim around 80
FPS so we're going to go ahead and we're going to all Tab out of this game and we
saw some crazy results so these results aren't done yet I still have to do some
more testing but check this out so the 560ti to the 660 is as much as a
doubling in performance in and uh hold
on I'm going to have to uh I'm going to have to double check these numbers with
the ones that I just ran okay so that's a little bit different see this is why
I'm rerunning some of the numbers because they just plain didn't look
right but check this out so 560ti um is beaten by more than double
by a GTX 660 in Skyrim so what we're
observing here is that the reason NVIDIA
has gone with that 2 gig frame buffer is that's the sweet spot right now where 3
gigs would potentially cost too much and not provide any additional benefit but a
2 gig frame buffer is going to be more than enough but save you some of the
cost on the card so that you get more Graphics power for cheaper so we've had
people suggest actually from our 660 Ti video re review that our 560 TI results
were nerfed in some way but that's not true at all all what you are seeing is
the fact that we are running on Modern settings so crisis 2 is running at very
high with the high-res textures enabled Skyrim is running at the ultra preset
with the highres texture pack Witcher 2 is running at very high preset with
vsync on and Metro 2033 is just a super demanding game in the first place so it
shouldn't surprise us that much that these are games that at 1080p with high
details are running out of room on that 1 gig frame buffer so with all that in
mind stay tuned for
performance all right so here I am in the home studio and I've finished all
the benchmarking that needs to be done for this card so we've uh yeah I think
I've already covered enough about the technology itself so here is the test
platform and for a change I'm going to take this PowerPoint presentation I'm
going to put a link under the video review so you guys can actually download
it and check out the graphs at your leisure I'm going to make a habit of
doing this in the future guys so this is all run on a core I 73 93k at 4 GHz cool
by a course r100 you can read the rest of the specs should you so desire so
let's go ahead and switch into play
mode first Benchmark is Crisis 2 at
1080p at very high settings so something you guys are going to notice again these
560 TI results they are terrible so we
did not see very good results with the 560 TI at all 660 Ti absolutely rocks it
so so by about double the performance and really hangs with its bigger brother
the 660 Ti did I say 660 Ti 660 hangs
with its Big Brother the 660 Ti and the 670 which were both very close I think
we get CPU limited once we hit around 95 FPS in this particular
game the 660 competes very well against
its direct competition the 7870 so we
see a pretty much a neck and neck race here
guys and our next Ben bench mark is
Battlefield 3 so here we see the GTX 660
performs pretty much again in line with
the 7870 edging It Out by about you know
4% which is outside the margin of error
so we're going to go ahead and call it a victory but it again lags behind its
bigger Brothers which is to be
expected next Benchmark Skyrim Skyrim was a bit of a
was a bit of a mess overall just due to the fact that we become very CPU limited
once we hit around that 100 FPS Mark so it's really hard for any of these cards
to pull away from each other however this is still a convincing victory for
the 660 but it again loses to its bigger brother and this looked like a bit of an
anomaly so not sure what to make of that
but don't mind it Witcher
2 once again we see the same pattern
where these two cards are very competitive with each other however we're going to call that a win for the
7870 and the 660 legs behind the 660 Ti
and the 670 which is to be expected because it's cheaper finally Metro 2033
see this is the what they're all supposed to be aligned like this so that
you can easily compare which cards perform in line with which other cards
so here we had these two cards perform very similarly it looks like almost like
a memory bandwidth bottleneck because you can see the 670 really pulls away
and it doesn't have that 192 memory bus like these two cards both have and they
both perform very similarly to the 7870
in this context so thank you for checking out my video review of the MSI
GeForce GTX 660 non TI this is the twin
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