NVIDIA continues to flesh out their desktop GPU line-up today, with yet another high-performance graphics card based on the Kepler microarchitecture. To date, we’ve seen the GeForce GTX 670, GTX 680, and monstrous GTX 690 come to market, all sporting GK104 GPUs in one form or another. The new GeForce GTX 660 Ti we’ll be showing you here, although more affordable than its higher-end counterparts, continues the trend and also sports a GK104. As you probably expect though, certain portions of the GPU on the GeForce GTX 660 Ti are disabled or non-functional, so it’s not quite as capable as its more powerful brethren in the performance department. Its feature set, however, is identical.
One of the advantages of releasing multiple graphics cards built around the same GPU is that NVIDIA’s board partners have had lots of experience with the chip. And with experience comes customization. NVIDIA’s board partners were so comfortable with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti right out of the gate that every one of the retail-ready boards were received were custom options, which were all overclocked right from the factory. Although you will likely find many GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards based strictly on NVIDIA’s reference design in the market at somewhat lower price points, a multitude of customized options will be available as well, four of which we’ll be showing you here today.
There’s also been some activity on the AMD Radeon front this past week that’s caused quite a stir. AMD has made a firmware update available for its Radeon HD 7950 that increases its based GPU clock and adds support for Boost, which was first introduced on the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We have included numbers for the Radeon HD 7950 with and without Boost support on the pages ahead to provide as much performance data as possible and paint the clearest picture of the landscape, but be aware that our numbers come by way of a reference card flashed with the latest firmware and not one of the newer, customized cards due to hit retail shelves in the coming days.
Back on topic, we’ve got the main features of specifications of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in the table below along with a few links to recent, related articles and some details on the changes to GK104 as it’s configured on the GTX 660 Ti. Later we’ll show you GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards from EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and ZOTAC and provide plenty of performance data for you speed freaks out there...
One of the advantages of releasing multiple graphics cards built around the same GPU is that NVIDIA’s board partners have had lots of experience with the chip. And with experience comes customization. NVIDIA’s board partners were so comfortable with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti right out of the gate that every one of the retail-ready boards were received were custom options, which were all overclocked right from the factory. Although you will likely find many GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards based strictly on NVIDIA’s reference design in the market at somewhat lower price points, a multitude of customized options will be available as well, four of which we’ll be showing you here today.
There’s also been some activity on the AMD Radeon front this past week that’s caused quite a stir. AMD has made a firmware update available for its Radeon HD 7950 that increases its based GPU clock and adds support for Boost, which was first introduced on the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. We have included numbers for the Radeon HD 7950 with and without Boost support on the pages ahead to provide as much performance data as possible and paint the clearest picture of the landscape, but be aware that our numbers come by way of a reference card flashed with the latest firmware and not one of the newer, customized cards due to hit retail shelves in the coming days.
Back on topic, we’ve got the main features of specifications of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in the table below along with a few links to recent, related articles and some details on the changes to GK104 as it’s configured on the GTX 660 Ti. Later we’ll show you GeForce GTX 660 Ti cards from EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, and ZOTAC and provide plenty of performance data for you speed freaks out there...
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