Welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's very exciting. This is
the Galaxy GeForce GTX 670. It supports
a wide variety of exciting features, most of which you can actually find out
about on my Galaxy GTX 680 unboxing as
well as review and all the other videos I did about it. because the 670 is
actually very similar to the 680 in many ways. Now, sure, it doesn't have quite
as many CUDA cores. It only has 1,344.
Sure, it's not clocked quite as high with a boost clock that's generally in
the neighborhood of around 980 MHz, although GPU boost doesn't necessarily,
you know, nail it down to an exact frequency at any given time. And
sure, it might look a little different, and more on that in a moment, but in
terms of the performance, in terms of the memory speed, in terms of the memory
bus, this is the first time in a while we haven't seen a a step down card from
the flagship single GPU that is actually using the same memory bus at the same
frequency. So, it has six gigahertz DDDR5 memory with a 256 bit bus. Um,
it's using the Right, right, right. So, the reason that most of the features are
very similar is because it is using the same GK 104 core that the GTX 680 is
using, although slightly cut down in terms of the functional units, the CUDA
cores and the clock speed. But other than that, this is almost a GTX 680,
although the key difference is that it comes at a more attractive price. So,
you can see it actually looks very similar as well. More on that in a
moment. So, let's just have a look at what Galaxy includes with their GTX 670.
In here, we find slick all black packaging. I'm a big fan of packaging,
as you guys probably know, if you've watched a few of my videos. I unpackage
a lot of products, so I do recognize good packaging when I see it. Got nice
little individually packaged zip locky things going on here. So, we got a DVI
to VGA adapter. We have uh two dual
Molex to six pin PCIe adapters. So that probably tells us that this card uses
dual six pin PCIe power adapters as well as a graphics card driver installation
disc. Although you should download the latest and finally a setup guide, easy
setup for quick installation for GeForce GTX 600 series pamphlet and
then a user's manual. So that pretty much covers it. Attention customers,
thank you for purchasing your blah blah blah. Be sure to register your card within 30 days of purchase to receive an
extended warranty. So Galaxy does provide up to I believe it's three
years. Yes, 3 years of warranty if you extend if you uh register your card
right away. So, let's go ahead and I
don't know how this works. So, I'll figure that out later.
Now, let's get to the card itself. So, first let's do a brief rundown. And
yeah, I'm totally going to look over there and use my cheat sheet because that's how I roll of the features that
the GTX 670 includes that were first introduced on the 680. So we've got uh
GPU boost which means that it dynamically according to the TDP that is
the thermal design envelope of this particular card as well as the power
envelope is going to adjust assuming that your GPU is running cool enough and
your board is not consuming too much power like if you're using something
like Firmark then it would know that well that's not a real game and it's
drawing more power than is realistic. GPU boost will dynamically adjust the
frequency of your GPU in order to make the best use of the power and the heat
envelope that it has available to it. So GPU boost is definitely present on the
670. We also have FXA has been added to
the NVIDIA control panel, although that's accessible to for many different cards. Now adaptive VSYNC is one that's
really cool. So, adaptive VSYNC allows you to either be using VSYNC when your
frame rate is way way above the refresh rate of your monitor, whether it's 60 or
120 or whatever the case may be. So, it will turn VSYNC on to eliminate tearing.
So, that is when your GPU draws the top
half of the screen and the bottom half of the screen in the middle of a monitor
refresh and you see like there's a guy standing there and he's like slightly
disconnected at the waist. So, that's tearing. So the VSIC will turn on when
you're up there and then when you are below 60, let's say 60 for our
hypothetical in most monitors, most LCDs are 60 Hz. When you're below 60 Hz, it
will no longer have to drop you all the way down to 30 if your GPU is capable of
pushing 55 frames per second, which is how VSYNC works. So it turns VSync off
as soon as you fall below that threshold. So you get the best of both worlds. So that's adaptive VSYNC. TXA is
uh basically more
What do they what do they what do they sort of call it pretty much um the
performance of yeah see I'm mode one
right two times
multi-sampling AA performance and it looks like eight times AA so that's
basically that and then mode two is you
know what hold on give me a sec I couldn't read my little chart from too
far away so mode one is the performance hit of two times anti-aliasing and it
looks about like eight times anti-aliasing And then mode two looks
even better than that and is about the same performance hit as four times
anti-aliasing. So that is also present on this card. Next, we have full support
for NVIDIA 3D vision surround off of a
single card. So you can go one, two, three displays with an auxiliary
display. No big deal. So you want to run your three displays and then your
auxiliary one can't run the game at the same time. It's not for surround gaming.
But if you had like, you know, a chat window open or like system monitoring
utilities or stuff open on that fourth monitor, then you can totally run that
one as well. So up to 3 + 1 displays is
also supported on this card. 4K monitor support as well as HDMI 1.4A that
includes 3D, which is very, very cool stuff. Better Physics performance. And
we're pretty much there. Now, let's have a look at the card itself. So, it uses a
similar blower design cooler, which also includes the acoustic dampening um
hoo-ha that NVIDIA included with the GTX 680. You can see it's a slightly shorter
card, although it's more than slightly shorter, which I'll show you more of in a moment. Uses the same fan, which is
good because the GTX 680 fan is excellent. It is a PCI Express 3.0 card,
which is good if you have the latest IV Bridge platform for your system. You can
see on the back we got sort of, you know, more like plasticky shroudy thing.
There's our PCIe interface. I already showed you the two DVI HDMI and display
port connectors. Up here we've got cool GeForce GTX branding. And then here
we've got our two six pin PCIe connectors. And what you may have
noticed about that is it's in kind of a weird location. Why would that be?
Because the GTX 670 comes with a very
short PCB. NVIDIA has actually rotated the GPU around to make better use of the
power circuitry being on the uh the back
half of the card. So all your power delivery is actually here instead of
here. So they no longer needed that segment of the PCB. Check this out.
There you go. So you can see this 670 is a reference 670 and there's actually
extra room for more graphics memory. So you can buy a 670 with up to 4 gigs of
graphics memory. And where all that power delivery circuitry normally is,
it's no longer there. So, they are still using the nice long efficient blower
cooler, which is going to exhaust most of the air out the back of your case. And you can also see there's a nice big
gap between the heat sink and these uh these vents back here, which actually
allows for slightly better air flow. But
they've used a very very efficient design to achieve that. Speaking of
efficiency, it is um by far better
performance per watt than anything else that NVIDIA has produced in this kind of
a price range before. So, it's uh like I said using the same GPU as the GTX 680,
which means it just blows away its predecessors, the 570, the 470 in terms
of the performance per watt that this card can deliver. It is compatible with
multi-way SLI configurations due to its two SLI uh its two SLI bridge.
two SLI connectors. Sorry guys, I'm tired. And I think that pretty much
covers it. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
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