{"video_id":"Tq2BOlE1VQw","title":"NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2GB Gaming Video Card 1080p Performance Review Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":646,"segments":[{"start_s":7.64,"end_s":13.519,"text":"okay guys it's new video card review time again so we're going to be taking a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.4,"end_s":19.68,"text":"look in this video at the 1080p performance of the allnew GeForce GTX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.88,"end_s":24.68,"text":"670 from NVIDIA so you can see here I've actually got a variety of GTX 670s uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.359,"end_s":28.72,"text":"most of which I did unboxings of already so you can see I've got a few reference","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.32,"end_s":32.52,"text":"cards this one's Factory overclocked this one's not this is one a 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you for checking out my performance review of the GTX 670","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":638.56,"end_s":643.48,"text":"from NVIDIA and don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":641.56,"end_s":646.48,"text":"unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"okay guys it's new video card review time again so we're going to be taking a look in this video at the 1080p performance of the allnew GeForce GTX 670 from NVIDIA so you can see here I've actually got a variety of GTX 670s uh most of which I did unboxings of already so you can see I've got a few reference cards this one's Factory overclocked this one's not this is one a direct NVIDIA card I've got them set up with a three-way SLI Bridge so that's a bit of a hint of what one of my other videos is going to be about I've also got a non- reference card so this is with a dual slot cooler this one's going to be cool because it's going to go head-to-head against a sapphire hd7950 that has a similarly designed cooler so we can take a look at them you know which one has more coil wine or less coil wine which one has the the better cooling solution since galaxy and Sapphire are both uh key partn for NVIDIA and AMD respectively this will be a really interesting head-to-head because these are similarly priced products now in terms of the overall mix I'm not testing a ton of games today guys and I apologize for that but honestly I just am a little bit a little bit constrained in terms of what I can do right now so I'm going to be doing crisis 2 Battlefield 3 Skyrim and Witcher 2 and this is the selection of cards that I'm going to be taking a look at we're going to be looking at the 1080p performance and then I'm going to have a separate video where I'm also going to cover things like the physical power and noise I'm going to take a look at 3D Vision performance compared to the last generation GTX 570 that this new 670 replaces we're going to do an overse guide seeing what kind of performance we can get compared to a 680 as well as oh yeah there it is there's that hint there for the SLI scaling video now before I go any further yes I covered this in the unboxings but I just want to give you guys a brief overview so the 670 is basically a slightly cut down version of the GTX 680 NVIDIA has made fewer Cuts than usual however because it still has the 256 memory bit memory interface with 6 GHz gddr5 it only has some of the Cuda cores cut away and a slight reduction in clock speed giving you um again that that slight performance reduction now you can see the reference cards are actually very short pcbs so these are very power efficient these are very cool running they don't need beefy coolers and you can see they only have dual six pin connectors even though these are high-end graphics cards this is cool too this is some of the other sort of slight finishing touches that you see from the board Partners Galaxy's gone ahead and put a slightly different back plate on theirs MSI has actually slightly adjusted the positioning of the slots compared to the reference one and uh yeah so let's get going shall we now there are a couple critical details before we really get started and that is test benches and the driver revisions that are are being used for so for the GTX 670 I'm using the publicly available beta driver 301.4c I'm using 301.4c I'm using the latest 12.4 drivers my test bench is a 4.4 GHz 3930k from Intel so that is an overclocked processor with 16 gigs of Kingston hyperx RAM at DDR 3600 I'm using a Gigabyte uh what's it called x79 a UD x79 ud7 motherboard this is sort of like the spiritual successor to their previous generation OC board so that's uh going to allow me to run up to four graphics cards in SLI or Crossfire should the uh should the need arise and then for boot Drive using the Kronos Deluxe 120 gig and for the power supply the ZX 1250 wat 80 plus gold power supply from ocz will be dealing with that side of things for cooling I'm going to be using come on Focus please an h100 which will uh keep my processor at a reasonable temperature during all this testing for crisis 2 I'll be mixing things up a little bit I'm going to be using the ultra preset since all of the cards that I am using are very high-end cards I still hate motion blur so I'm keeping that on medium and I'm going to be using highres textures this time around once again to try and strain these cards as much as I can so I'm going to do this a little differently and I'm going to go one game at a time in terms of the analysis so here you can see the crisis 2 1080p P Ultra performance here is the GTX 670 which puts in a very very strong performance because while the average frames per second are below the 7970 check this out the actual minimum frame rate of the 670 was above the hd7970 so that means that when you see a dip in the action you're going to see pretty much the same dip with a 670 as with a 7970 which is outstanding I mean remember too guys you know there's stuff that's sort of within margin of error here but uh in general that shows us that this is a very very strong card and when you compare it against its more similarly priced competitor the 7950 the difference becomes much more pronounced although bear in mind the 7950 is an outstanding overclocker which will allow it to uh put some distance between itself and the 7870 which at stock speed have well put it put on a pretty good show for this uh for this performance review as well for Battlefield 3 I'll be doing my usual two-minute run through in the comrades level in the parade and I will also be using Battlefield 3 to measure the maximum uh Power draw as well as maximum noise and load temperatures of the gpus now yes I realize these are not the maximum loads that I could create with this system but I'm looking for a more realistic scenario so what I'm going to do is I find a particular van in the parking lot when I'm done my run through and I shoot it until it starts smoking and some effects get going and that's how I've been able to generate a pretty good Peak power draw and then I'm going to sit there and stare at it and get all of those stats before I close the game also for Battlefield 3 we will be running everything on Ultra in Battlefield 3 the GTX 670 sits very comfortably with its competition the 7950 hold on let me just move that cursor so you can see that in terms of the average frame rate it is quite a bit higher than even than the 7950 and even is competitive with the 7970 although when the action gets intense you'll see a dip more like a 7950 as opposed to like a 7970 and it sits sort of exactly where you'd expect it to be behind its younger brother the GTX 680 I think it should be noted that this is a huge generational leap in performance compared to the card that it's replacing I mean these are staggering numbers and you'll continue to see that throughout the rest of this performance evaluation of this card once again the 7870 puts on a pretty good show considering its price point though as well for Skyrim I'll be doing my usual two laps around the town of white run and I will be using Ultra presets which means everything you know all the view distances are at Max and everything is pretty Ultra and fabulous also I am using the stock highres texture pack now Battlefield 3 was a bit of an anomaly for me bear in mind guys I mentioned this before but I'm using a different driver on the GTX 6 7 than I am on the GTX 680 so I would expect that once the GTX 680 catches up in terms of the driver revisions that we're going to see um a similar performance boost however what this basically means is that at launch for all intents and purposes the GTX 670 is the fastest card that I tested in Battlefield 3 which is no uh no small matter and I mean you can see how much ahead it is of even the hd7970 so if you play Battlefield 3 the GTX 670 is going to be one of the cards on your short list I think and once again staggering performance improvement over the last generation GTX 570 almost a doubling of minimum FPS The Witcher 2 is so demanding that I won't be altering my usual test setup so you guys can see here if my camera would ever Focus exactly what I am using to test these cards bearing in mind of course this is at 1080P and I'm doing my usual run through um which if you guys have seen it before then you know which run through I'm talking about and if you haven't then you don't but it's pretty good there's some combat there's some trees there's some buildings good stuff The Witcher is such a demanding game and the settings that I'm running it at are just totally unreasonable even for modern high-end cards but it still gives you an idea of where everything stands so in terms of average FPS the GTX 670 Falls right in with the 7950 about where it's supposed to be we saw a bit of a dip but something to note about the witch is that it tends to just kind of randomly hitch up and and the the frames just sort of tank unexpectedly sometimes so I don't know how much you can really read into these minimum FPS I think that would explain why they're all kind of around the same level you know you can see the 7970 dips below even a 7950 um so so sort of take take all of that with a grain of salt for this one I would be more interested in the average FPS and once again we see a sizable improvement over the previous generation and about an exp Ed gap between the GTX 670 and the GTX 680 so just a couple subjective things um the GTX 680 exhibits a tiny bit of coil wine better than the reference cards from the red team that I have in my testing suite and uh better than the GTX 680 that I have um but both the 680 and the 670 uh do have a little do make a little bit more noise than the last generation cards um the fan has a bit of a had a bit of a grind has a bit of a grinding noise to it you can check out my other video on the noise temperatures and uh and power consumption of this card it is extremely efficient so power consumption wise it is very similar to a GTX 570 but it offers dramatically better performance and part of this maybe the smaller PCB I don't know but a huge part of it is definitely the Kepler GPU that it's got going on in there remember this card is also available in 4 gig configurations and if you're looking at running a giant resolution like a 2560x1440 or 2560 x600 monitor or three monitors in surround I would definitely look at picking up the 4 Gig version so thank you for checking out my performance review of the GTX 670 from NVIDIA and don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}