Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti 3D Vision Performance Overview Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my 3D Vision performance review of the GTX 660 Ti so in this case
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we have Galaxy's GC dual fan card and
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we're comparing it to a couple of different scenarios so number one is
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we're comparing it to a last generation solution so we've got a GTX 560 TI on
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the test bench we're going to be running three different games uh the Elder
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Scrolls is it four five I don't know something oh um Skyrim the latest one
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we're going to be running crisis 2 slick really cares that I say that it's Elder
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Scrolls 5 okay it's good slick um so
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it's Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim and then we've got crisis 2 and Metro 2033 which
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we will be doing our usual run throughs we're going to be using our high details
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and Ultra details that we normally use to Benchmark these cards except throwing
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3D into the mix actually dram atically increases the load on the card so what
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we discovered is that okay okay what we were trying to find out is how does the
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660ti compare to the $670 which is $100
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more and how does it compare to the last generation equivalent card the 560 TI in
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3D performance so right there so there's a lot more load on the card in 3D just
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because it has to render both the left eye and the right eye image at the same
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time and you can see here that we are actually getting only about 20 FPS
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crisis 2 using 3D Vision so look through one of the lenses if you can if there's
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a way so you can see that the legginess level is actually quite High I hope you
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can see that anyway the point is that it is so let's have a look at what kind of
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performance results we got we're not actually running a benchmark right now we're all done with the
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benchmarking so here we go let's create some graphs charts and graphs that's
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like my favorite thing ever so select data and uh we're going to go with our
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3D Vision performance and we're going to look at crisis 2 first oh oh oh I did it
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wrong Excel doesn't like it when you select things in the wrong order so
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we're going to look at minimum FPS as well as average FPS we're going to put
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in some data labels so you guys are seeing the whole graph creation process
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here from start to finish including
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boldness okay so the 560ti reference
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gets pwned in crisis 2 minimum FPS is
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about a third of what you see on a 660
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Ti um from the latest generation of
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NVIDIA products using a Kepler GPU so remember 560 TI is firmy and this says
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Battlefield 3 1080p Ultra but what it means is Crisis 2 3D there we go so now
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let's pull up another chart and graph for you guys um in this case it says uh
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it says PE but actually it's not the 660
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Ti PE it's the 660 Ti GC from Galaxy so
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pay no pay no mind to that okay yeah
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these are this is like my super professional approach to to graphing for
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tonight it's actually it actually is 5:00 a.m. so the 660 Ti launches in an
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hour which means that uh We've we've sort of given up on um a lot of things
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and we're very tired both me and Slick
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Slick's CL oh yeah he's nodding I thought he was claiming to be not tired
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and I was going to be like liar
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liar I add data labels Bolding the data
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so you can see here again the 660ti basically wouldn't even run like slick
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couldn't do anything average FPS of one
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um whereas with a newer solution whether it's the faster GPU whether it's the
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additional vram which is needed a lot
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more so in 3D Vision than it is in non-3d Vision mode we were able to get a
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minimum of 30 FPS with our 660ti and this is a bit of an anomaly
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where our 6 70 loses but it is what it is um lots of weird things happen in
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benchmarking we try not to question it too much if you question it then you
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might end up understanding it which is
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madness Sparta something let's go with Metro 20133 I don't even know what I'm
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talking about anymore I hope no one watches this video I think that'll be
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better Metro 2033 and once again this 560 TI gets
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absolutely creamed
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with a whopping 2.5 FPS I barely even
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could make the jump that I have to do for my benchmarking run and the 660 Ti
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uh also gets crushed and so does the 670
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but they do a lot better than this one by like a order of magnitude so what we
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learned today is that the 660 Ti is a
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worthy upgrade if you're using a 560 and
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you want to go with a 3D Vision solution and that the 660 performs pretty closely
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to a 670 except in one weird instance where it actually outperformed it I
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wonder if slit copied the wrong number down he says no I think I was the one
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who worked on yeah I worked on those okay so one way or another the 660ti is
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an awesome video card and my other videos about this video card are better
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you should probably watch those don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for
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morning