Reviews - EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SuperClocked

[Terbinator]

Is anyone else thinking: where's the single slot version?

Yep.

I have another question as well though, why does it have two power connectors? I thought one connectors was worth 75W and another 75W can be draw from the PCI-e lane itself?

[crossy]

You're not a fan of Scan on Facebook then lol.

Scan Fan? Yes. Fan of Farcebook? No.

Apparently the 660Ti replaces the 460/560 as well, although I'm not sure when they were ever £250.

Don't know about the 560, but £250 was far overpriced for a 460, e.g.

1GB Gigabyte GTX 460 Super OC, 4000 1 £136.50 (ex VAT)

And that's the card I'm still using, although judging by the b'marks out there, the game has moved on and I'd better thing about an upgrade - whether to stay loyal to NVidia (670 sounds good) or for the first time defect to AMD (79xx?)

[Jimbo75]

I'm more thinking "how come everyone is benching overclocked cards instead of the reference card?". I thought we were over this stuff after the 460 gtx fiasco at Barts launch. Nvidia always does this when they don't have the product they need.

Don't get me wrong, AMD's 7950 boost shenanigans are no better, but still we have another launch with overclocked Nvidia cards against stock AMD cards. I realise techsites can only review what they're being given but this isn't right.

[HalloweenJack]

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...s-card-review/


jan last year - GTX 560Ti debut @ £215


still totally stunned just how poorly AMD are doing when the double the price 7970 is barely keeping ahead of the mid range gtx 660 - thats looking at a spread of reviews ofc

[Nabobalis]

still totally stunned just how poorly AMD are doing when the double the price 7970 is barely keeping ahead of the mid range gtx 660 - thats looking at a spread of reviews ofc

Tomshardware review shows that on average the 7950 is faster than the 660 and Anandtech state that its very close between the 660 and the 7950.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Tomshardware review shows that on average the 7950 is faster than the 660 and Anandtech state that its very close between the 660 and the 7950.

Yep. Even in this review the HD7950 V1 wins 3 and a pre-overclocked GTX660TI wins 4.

[still totally stunned just how poorly AMD are doing when the double the price 7970 is barely keeping ahead of the mid range gtx 660 - thats looking at a spread of reviews ofc

The cheapest HD7970 on Scan is around £320 and is overclocked to around the same level as the GE. The cheapest GTX670(stock clockspeeds) is around £290.

So not twice the price.

[scaryjim]

... the double the price 7970 is barely keeping ahead of the mid range gtx 660 ...

According to hexus KFA2 review: Massively overclocked GTX660Ti beats stock 7970 in 2 games at 1080p, falls behind in all other games and resolutions (sometimes massively behind). Massively overclocked KFA GTX660Ti costs £280, stock 7970 costs £320. Not sure where you're getting "double the price" from...?

[Jimbo75]

Tomshardware review shows that on average the 7950 is faster than the 660 and Anandtech state that its very close between the 660 and the 7950.

Toms shows the 7870 is faster -



They aren't the only ones either -

HT4U found that the 7870 was faster over 17 games at 1080p. 17 games, and the 660 Ti couldn't beat it overall.

[Nabobalis]

More interestingly, the Anandtech review found that at resolutions above 1080p the AMD cards "beat" (i.e slightly better) out the Nvidia ones (at the middle and lower end).

I really not sure if I want a 7950 or a 660 since they are the same price on overclockers.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

More interestingly, the Anandtech review found that at resolutions above 1080p the AMD cards "beat" (i.e slightly better) out the Nvidia ones (at the middle and lower end).

I really not sure if I want a 7950 or a 660 since they are the same price on overclockers.

Save some more cash and get a cheaper GTX670 if you don't overclock. If you overclock,get the HD7950:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_7950/

Over 500 submissions and the average HD7950 overclock is 1167MHZ from the stock 800MHZ and the HIS card has a decent cooler too.

[Nabobalis]

Save some more cash and get a cheaper GTX670 if you don't overclock. If you overclock,get the HD7950:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_7950/

Over 500 submissions and the average HD7950 overclock is 1167MHZ from the stock 800MHZ and the HIS card has a decent cooler too.

Yeah, my plan would be to overclock it. Along with my CPU when I get around to that.

[shaithis]

More interestingly, the Anandtech review found that at resolutions above 1080p the AMD cards "beat" (i.e slightly better) out the Nvidia ones (at the middle and lower end).

That's because AMD aren't re-badging mid-range cards as high-end and actually have the necessary bandwidth to display higher resolutions without taking a sever performance penalty.

[Willzzz]

More interestingly, the Anandtech review found that at resolutions above 1080p the AMD cards "beat" (i.e slightly better) out the Nvidia ones (at the middle and lower end).

I really not sure if I want a 7950 or a 660 since they are the same price on overclockers.

Rather bizarrely the 660 had a higher FPS at 2560 than it did at 1920 on BF3, crazy!

You really need to look at the games you play when deciding; in certain games Nvidia thrash AMD, in others the position is reversed. Also sometimes the 670 is worth the extra money, sometimes the performance is identical to the cheaper 660.

[Willzzz]

That's because AMD aren't re-badging mid-range cards as high-end and actually have the necessary bandwidth to display higher resolutions without taking a sever performance penalty.

On many games the 660 doesn't take a significant penalty at 2560, games like BF3, Portal, Civ, Shogun and more.
Many games simply don't need the extra bandwidth that AMD offers.

[shaithis]

Yup, some games don't need it.
But if you run high resolutions, good luck dodging those mines

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The GTX660TI is overpriced. GTX670 cards can be had for around £290 and I would rather get one of those in the long run especially with the titles out next year.

Moreover,if you like overclocking HD7950 3GB,have quite a decent amount of headroom if you don't mind the extra power consumption.