Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3

Hmm. I have been wanting to replace my 560 - this throws a wrench in the gears. I was sold on a ASUS 670 but I think I'll wait to compare specs with their 660ti - I just started ripping my BD collection so the additional RAM bandwidth might be worth the extra $100 but it is still an interesting option.

so, this is basically a card that costs 40$ less then a GTX 580, consumes 100W less power then a gtx 580 and its 8% better...hmm, intresting.

*edit, costs 100$ less then GTX 580.

That's strange - on techpowerup review the 660Ti is above 7950's average performance.

Asus' DCU2 Top ends up about 5% faster than stock, 8% slower than stock GTX 670 and still uses that excellent cooler.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] _II/1.html

Still, the GTX 660Ti looks to be a decent card.
Not really fond of how nVidia keeps nerfing their memory bandwidth though.
Once prices drop a little, I could see it being an excellent mainstream card.

nice card, not OVERLY impressed...
BUT THE PRICE...!
c'mon SON let's be real here......
ridiculous @ $300 beans..

waiting for a price cut down.who's with me?

I have been holding to upgrade my GTX 460 256bits. I wonder if this card will be bottlenecked by my C2Q 9550 @ 3.6ghz....

GPGPU = Kepler = FAIL....
that's depressing but I understand nVidia has designated GTX 6 series as a gaming cards but c'mon SON.!!!
ridiculous once again..

Compared to the "wow" of the GTX 670 launch, this is very "meh".... needs to get down closer to the $250 mark to have that "wow" factor.

Clearly we need more price cuts on the 660ti. I expect AMD to lower the prices even more, heck online retailers sell Radeon cards lower than the MSRP, making 7950 and 7870 even more budget friendly. It's still sad really to see mid-range cards battling at $300+. It used to be $250 and lower

GTX580 has lower average FPS but usually has a higher Minimum FPS than GTX660.
i would take higher min fps over a higher average FPS anyday.

on the final page, a graph comparing the min FPS of the games should have been there too.

i think the reviewer went overboard with the OpenCL tests in this review. You could have pared down some of those image/video manipulation tests.

If you overclock (why wouldn't you?), then the 7870 is the obvious choice. 660ti doesn't leave much headroom, while Pitcarim cards scale beautifully with OC (and have plenty of headroom). I wonder about the inconsistent OC improvements - was the 660ti thermally throttled on the games where the OC didn't help (much), or was it just the memory bandwidth (i.e., those games/settings had more taxing memory loads)?

So am i the only one seeing that GTX 660Ti is a fail?

Indeed, the 660ti hasnt lived upto its hype. I'd pick a HD7870 over it, especially since the 7870 will fall down to the 250-280 range after AMD begins with the price cut.

I've seen some HD 7870s getting close to this price, I guess it's a win-round for AMD.

lol Looks like the pitcrain 7870 is holding up pretty well. Can I say 660ti is between 7850 vs 7870 and on rare case above 7870?

I guess a 1.1GHz 7870 will just on par with 660ti. Pitcrain is just a powerful thing.

Last month, you could have picked up a non-reference 7870 for well below the $300 price tag (some after mail-in rebate). With the 660TI being a "meh" product, I doubt you'll find any significant price drops until Black Friday.