GTX 660 Ti NVIDIA Surround Performance Review Gaming Showcase Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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all right so welcome to alius Tech tips blog video All About
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surround gaming performance and shotguns
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and shotguns and how they don't kill dudes like are you serious I'm half
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expecting him to get up at this point get up get up no you won't get up okay
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that's fine that's cool so I'm not going to spend too much time on gameplay this
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is GTX 660ti from Galaxy and we are
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going to go ahead and show you guys some performance numbers so we tested a
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cross-section of games here's our surround perf uh cross-section of the Excel chart
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it's not really a cross-section anymore what happened to the graph Luke did I
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call you Luke you better start over so let's start with crisis 2 crisis 2 this
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is running Ultra presets so totally unrealistic for these cards if we turn
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it down to very high it runs at more like 35 40 FP s on the 660ti but it does
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give us an idea of how these cards perform against each other so you can
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see the 660ti does leg a little bit behind the 670 which performs pretty
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much neck and neck with the 7950 since the 7950 and the 670 are both a little
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bit more expensive than the 660 Ti all of this pretty much stands to reason so
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we're going to go ahead and create new charts and graphs in real time so
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amazing you guys are seeing a real Tech tip here so this is Battlefield
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3 Battlefield
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3 and we have to add the data label every time because for some reason you
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know someone should do like Excel tips for lonus about how to make it so I
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don't have to redo that every time so 660ti once again maybe it's due to the
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fact that the 7950 has 3 gigs of memory maybe it's due to the fact that it's
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just not quite as fast as the 7950 for pushing huge resolutions um which could
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be related to memory bandwidth again comes probably back to memory but the
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670 manages to keep Pace with the 7950 while the 660ti legs behind a little bit
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it should however be noted that 660ti if you can get a model that over volts is
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actually a reasonably good overclocker and you can expect to get up to those
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670 levels of performance without any difficulty so
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Skyrim yay Skyrim now we just have to add our data
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label again and you can see once again
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the 660ti does lag behind Skyrim really
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benefits from something to do with the 7950 and it is definitely the big winner
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in terms of surround gaming however it should be noted that it's not
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necessarily all about surround gaming there are other things in this world um
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such as the fact that you can enable stereo 3D should you see fit on the
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NVIDIA cards whereas honestly with the
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um hd3d is not uh
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is not quite there compared to 3D Vision
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uh these are very high presets I recall correctly all right Witcher 2 add data
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labels and for some reason our label okay hold on SEC guys for whatever
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reason we couldn't get Witcher 2 to run at all on the Radeon card and uh this
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could have been just a random driver issue we are using the latest drivers
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but there was just nothing we could do about it and short of adding different
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cards to our comparison there wasn't a whole lot we could do to bring you
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results from the radon side so we ended up having to stick with that our last
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one very demanding game Metro
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2033 and this is on I think I think they call it very high uh so we didn't have a
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depth of field on but other than that pretty much cranked and you can see in
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this guy I'm just going to make my adjustments here you can see in this guy
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the 660ti once again legs behind the 7 9950 a little bit but the 670 does
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pretty well so what's the conclusion here conclusion is 660 Ti is fantastic
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and actually performs incredibly well for single monitor gaming if you guys
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saw the 1080p performance review that I already did then you'll know that
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already it performs pretty much right up there with the 7950 however when we get
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into very high resolution surround gaming scenarios the 7950 Str stretches
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its legs a little bit with its extra memory bandwidth its extra memory at all
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and that is personally what I think is is making the difference here so thank
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