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listen awful but this review isn't so
this is all about the GeForce 660 Ti
which is the all new NVIDIA graphics card that is coming in at a lower price
point than the GTX 670 which came in at a lower price point than the GTX 680 but
what's crazy about this is that they're all built on the same Graphics whoops
core technology which is the GK 104 core
that means you've got full support for adaptive vsync you've got full support
for the latest anti-aliasing modes including FXAA and txaa you've got GPU
boost which is very cool which basically just detects how power hungry the game
you're running is and if it happens to be a little bit less power hungry and it
can squeeze some more GPU frequency out of the core and maintain the power
threshold and heat threshold that the card needs
then it will actually increase the clock of your GPU giving you better FPS in
real world applications games so that's
really cool while it may not be as good for benchmarking and furmark which most
people don't need to do because what you really want to do with a graphics card
is play games then I totally vote for that technology so there's a couple
different cards that we're looking at here today the one that we did the bulk of the benchmarking on is the GTX 660 Ti
power Edition from MSI however we also did take some readings with the Galaxy
GTX 660ti GC with their dual fan cooler
so what we did find was that due to the overvolting capability of the power
Edition we were able to overclock higher on this card however the Galaxy card did
run significantly cooler about 7° cooler
than the MSI card under a realistic gaming load so in this case we use
crisis 2 in order to get all of our gaming load temperatures as well as our
gaming load power consumption and we are
using let's see which games do we test so we tested crisis 2 Witcher 2 Skyrim
which didn't end up being very GPU Limited at all so that one was kind of
pointless Metro 2033 as well as one
other game which is escaping me right now but maybe slick can remind
me yeah we already said Witcher Battlefield 3 Battlefield 3 so we did
five games finding out where these cards fall in terms of performance so we did
the 660 Ti because that's the card of
the day okay 660ti very important performance numbers we did the 560ti
because we wanted to see how the new 660 Ti performs compared to the card that it
is replacing in that sort of $250 to
$300 segment although the 660 Ti comes in at the high end of that segment we
did the 670 to find out how the 660 Ti
compares to its older brother so if you want to Shell out another hundred bucks
what do you get we did the Radeon hd7870
and in this case we used a what is this a hawk yeah Hawk Edition card because it
doesn't cost much more than a regular 7870 and we want to compare real 660 Ti
you can buy to real cards that you can buy on the market today to compare it
against we actually have a sapphire 7950 that's running on that test bench over
there that we use to compare because the 660 Ti Falls right between the 7870 and
the 7950 in terms of pricing but what you're going to see is that at 1080p
performance is actually closer to a 7950
than it is to a 7870 so that is the range of cards stick
with me guys and we're going to walk through all the performance numbers
together of this all new and very exciting graphics card so we're going to
start with crisis 2 benchmarks so you can see right here the GTX 660 Ti power
Edition actually performs as well or
better than the 7950 dual x from Sapphire remember this is an overclocked
Factory overclocked 7950 and dramatically outperforms the 7870 Hawk
it actually comes within spitting distance this is a bit of an anomaly this difference in the minimum FPS so
the red bar is average and the blue bar is minimum but you can see it performs
within about 10% of the 660 670 reference card which means that
once we overclock this a little more we can probably get pretty close and I'm going to be doing a separate video about
overclocking the 560 TI gets destroyed in every possible way so if you have one
of these the 660ti is a worthy upgrade
it should be noted we're running on the ultra highest presets at 1080p with
medium motion blur and highres textures enabled this is a custom game run
through every Benchmark we do is a run through ingame recorded with fraps we
are not using any canned benchmarks on this YouTube
show Battlefield 3 is another big win
for the 660 Ti so this is at Ultra presets and this is single player
gameplay guys we are going to do a separate video comparing the GTX 66 60
TI to the 7950 directly in Battlefield 3
multiplayer we've been asked for that a lot of times so look for that on my
channel as well in the next little while here and Slick's going to do some
runthrough in a nice full server where you can really see how these perform in
a the most intensive possible Battlefield 3 scenario so moving right
along uh yeah big winner it has a slightly lower dip in terms of minimum
FPS compared to the 7950 duel but it should be noted that because we're doing
real run throughs you have to take these minimum dips with a grain of salt
because you never know some weird glitches can happen to the best of
graphics cards and you can't really control that the 560ti gets its butt
handed to it thoroughly again I think a big part of this is due to the fact that
it's only got one gig of video memory when everything else here has 2 gigs 3
gigs 2 gigs and two gigs and you can once again see the 660 Ti plat power
Edition almost Platinum Edition can you tell can you tell I've been like doing
this a long time the last card called Platinum Edition was an x800
uh AGP yes and uh gets dangerously close
to that 670 performance Mark Skyrim with high texture pack
enabled also just destroyed our 560 TI
this was not pretty so let's uh let's
sort of just you know ignore that so we'll have a look at how the 660ti did
this is one where the 670 with its additional memory bandwidth seemed to
really pull away from the 660ti but even then the 660 Ti hung with with the 7950
as opposed to with the 7870 for Witcher 2 you were using a
slightly custom configuration High spec with vertical sync disabled so that we
can get the maximum FPS mind you it never really goes over 120 FPS anyway
we're using a 120 Herz monitor so on this one you see that the 7950 dipped a
little bit low this is not representative it should be more like
probably in this range it was a bit of an anomaly however we can still look at
the average FPS numbers and see that the 660 Ti
for the first time landed around where its price point is which is between a
7870 and a 7950 instead of running right
with the 7950 which is a more expensive GPU the 670 again performs a little bit
better than the 660 Ti so no real surprises here and once again in Metro
2033 the GTX 660 Ti destroys the card
it's replacing and it's not as close to the 670 in this one but actually here
I'm going to cheat I'm going to show you guys a pre from our overclocked
performance guide but you're going to see that in Metro 2033 the 660ti oh no
it still Trails behind it big way in Metro okay forget it so
it's it's more like a 7870 in terms of
performance in this particular title but I think this shows us a good
cross-section of which titles the 660 Ti
performs more like a 7950 and which titles it performs kind
of exactly where it's supposed to be and in a worst casee scenario it performs
about like a 7870 which is what the pricing is sort of closest to if you
don't factor in mail in rebates however if you factor in mail in rebates some of
the 787s are priced pretty aggressively so I think that pretty much wraps it up
if you want 3D Vision if you want NVIDIA's surround as opposed to AMD
Affinity if you want fizx then you will have to go with a GeForce card and if
you want the best price to Performance ratio right now for GeForce the 660ti is
looking like it because it just rocks
the last generation stuff in terms of performance without demanding a huge
premium on the price so thank you for checking out this review for 1080p
performance of the GTX 660 Ti remember we got a couple here so there is an SLI
performance review coming where we're going to be comparing it directly to a
GTX 680 because all of a sudden buying
two of these is not that much more expensive than buying a single 680 so
that's an interesting scenario cuz they should perform pretty well so we got two
of them we'll show them off then and I think that pretty much wraps it up don't
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