Power Consumption and Temperatures
With all the power efficiency improvement talk that NVIDIA has been pushing on us since learning about the new Kepler GPU, we were eager to see how the actual power consumption actually turned out.
Between the GTX 670 and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti we see a 14 watt power consumption difference – pretty close the 20 watts that NVIDIA claimed. The Radeon HD 7870 uses only 16 watts less power while the HD 7950 is using 42 watts more. This again shows us the power efficiency of the Kepler design, though maybe not as dramatically as the GTX 680 or GTX 670.
While these numbers are not directly comparable since the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is using a non-reference cooler, it does show us that the Kepler core can be cooled pretty easily.
nvidia has a beast of a video
nvidia has a beast of a video card with 660ti compared to 7950 even with an updated bios.
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I am looking forward to the
I am looking forward to the upcoming price drops from AMD. Isn’t competition great!?
i cant wait till the
i cant wait till the fall/winter when amd releases the 8xxx series of cards then nv sits and waits for a year than updates its lineup
Low TDP, cuda cores, and the
Low TDP, cuda cores, and the MSI Twin Frozr looks promising to overclock. I might just move on from my 6970 to this card. 1344 Cuda cores should help in AE rendering.
How much more performous
How much more performous would you get if you have a gtx 670 and want to run that with the 660ti as sli
I doublt you can SLI a 660ti
I doublt you can SLI a 660ti and a 670 together, and a 660ti is about 5-10% less powerful than a 670.
no you SLI a 660 ti and a 670
no you SLI a 660 ti and a 670 because are different cards you dick, you can only SLI the same card but they can be different makes. e.g MSI and EVGA, but they have to be the same GPU!
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For building an SLI-System
For building an SLI-System you need to use SAME GPUs.
2x GTX 670 OR 2x GTX 660 Ti.
GTX 670 + 660 Ti is not able to run in SLI-Mode.
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660ti SLI is about a 20%
660ti SLI is about a 20% performance increase from a single 680
Gtx 660 ti sli is in some
Gtx 660 ti sli is in some cases even more powerful than the gtx Titan
how does sli scale on this
how does sli scale on this card? will it be worth it towards highly oc’ed 600$ cards?
Hi, i play in a 25′ Monitor,
Hi, i play in a 25′ Monitor, and i’m going to buy a 660Ti When the 660Ti goes “Cheap” here in Brazil ( A Lot Expensive here : ), but the question is i can Run the 660Ti i have risk of lose the 660ti With a 400w Power Supply ? with a core i3 2120 and 8 gb Kingston Memory ? Thank You. And Sorry for The bad english, i’m Training.
What brand PSU is it? A
What brand PSU is it? A seasonic, thermaltake, or corsair 400w PSU likely would be okay, but the 660ti like a 450+. Other than that, your next upgrade would likely be a Quad Core i5, but even then the difference would be marginal between an i3 and an i5.
I Have a Corsair, but i was
I Have a Corsair, but i was seeing that probably i will need to change my power suplly, i have Corsair 400CX, that only have a 6 pin connector.
Will faster GPUs help
Will faster GPUs help productivity with Folding at Home?
If you use the GPU-Client it
If you use the GPU-Client it will. The faster the card, the more points you’ll get.
But in Folding@home the Radeons are much faster, then the GTXs.
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Question for
Question for Tom:
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Do you think the 660 has been nerfed enough so that overclocked versions won’t exceed a more expensive 670? Because that was a real problem with the 670 vs 680!
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at lower rez like 1080 don’t
at lower rez like 1080 don’t think would take much OC to get it to around 670 speed, but that disabled memory controller is a ~25% memory bandwidth hit which would be a pretty size-able OC to get that back. I would say it could get in 670 ball park. This card was aimed at single monitor people.
wish i haddent bought a hd
wish i haddent bought a hd 7850
Why the 660Ti is between the
Why the 660Ti is between the 7870 and 7850 check out a real review on TomsHardware.com
Unless I missed it in my
Unless I missed it in my rather quick glance at this review (which has been discarded because of this fact), you should have included the 560 Ti. Did you just assume that no one was interested in the increase of power between the generation gap?
Should have used the 560 Ti, 570, and a 670 as a bench mark competitor – this review is useless with out it.
560ti is marginally faster
560ti is marginally faster than the 470.
You missed it, because its
You missed it, because its quiet obvious with as close as the 660ti performs to the 670.
And that comparison probably in the works anyway….
what Catalyst version you
what Catalyst version you used for the test?
12.6 for AMD, 305.37 for
12.6 for AMD, 305.37 for NVIDIA. Article updated!
Can this one card be used to
Can this one card be used to drive an HD TV, and 3 monitors in or out of eyefinity? I want to display a TV on on screen and have 3 monitor computing, not hardcore gaming but along those lines. I don’t play many games, but I’m looking for a card that can do this. I currently run 3 heads off of a 6950/70 and run the TV off the z68 gigabyte iSSD mobo. THe current setup works, but I’m looking to upgrade…
I am planning a build which
I am planning a build which will use 3 660ti’s in a 3 way SLi configuration so I should find out just how much of an improvement that makes in the next year. Your next question is why? Well I am not as interested in the performance gain as I am interested in getting at cheap GPUs. I am building the computer as mainly a GPU compute platform its ability to serve as a gaming platform is a perk. I am looking to take advantage GPU processing capabilities for GIS work.
interesting, what type of
interesting, what type of data?
*HELP* Can it handle 3
*HELP* Can it handle 3 monitors???? *HELP*
it can handle 4, 3 at once
it can handle 4, 3 at once for gaming and one on the side
It’s my understanding that a
It’s my understanding that a 660Ti is a crippled 670gtx on a 192bit bus. So why? can these cards not SLI? surely the 670 would reduce its bus speed down to 192. before you go saying whats the point (I picked up a 660ti for £80 Black friday on Amazon) two 660ti’s beat a 670gtx in most youtube benchies.
I’m going to buy gtx 660 ti
I’m going to buy gtx 660 ti but,I don’t know which version of gtx660ti is the best. I’m thinking about gigabyte gtx660ti 3gb (gv n66toc 3gd)
As of right now, the HD 7870
As of right now, the HD 7870 is $80 less than the 660 Ti on Newegg. I don’t think that $80 is worth the performance difference at all.