The Speeds And Feeds
As you can see, Nvidia's reference design on the far right is the only board in this round-up based on that design. Everyone else used different coolers, core clock rates, and, in a few cases, memory clock rates.
| Asus | Gainward | Galaxy | Palit | Gigabyte | Zotac | Nvidia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDA Cores | 1344 | ||||||
| Texture Units | 112 | ||||||
| ROPs | 32 | ||||||
| GPU Clock | 1059 MHz | 1006 MHz | 1006 MHz | 1006 MHz | 980 MHz | 1098 MHz | 915 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1137 MHz | 1085 MHz | 1085 MHz | 1085 MHz | 1059 MHz | 1167 MHz | 980 MHz |
| Pixel Fill Rate | 29.7 GPix/s | 28.2 GPix/s | 28.2 GPix/s | 28.2 GPix/s | 27.4 GPix/s | 30.7 GPix/s | 25.6 GPix/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 118.6 GTex/s | 112.7 GTex/s | 112.7 GTex/s | 112.7 GTex/s | 109.8 GTex/s | 123 GTex/s | 102.5 GTex/s |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1527 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1527 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1652 MHz | 1502 MHz |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | ||||||
| Memory Bandwidth | 192.3 GB/s | 195.5 GB/s | 192.3 GB/s | 195.5 GB/s | 192.3 GB/s | 211.5 GB/s | 192.3 GB/s |
| Memory | 2 GB GDDR5 | ||||||
| Die Size | 294 mm² | ||||||
| Transistors | 3.54 Billion | ||||||
| Power Connectors | 6 + 6-pin | 6 + 6-pin | 8 + 6-pin | 6 + 6-pin | 8 + 6-pin | 6 + 6-pin | 6 + 6-pin |
| Street Price | $430 | Not Available | $440 | Not Available | $400 | $440 | $400 |
Pricing and Availability
It's difficult to keep a sharp bead on graphics card prices; they move every day, it seems. The best we could do here was check availability the day before this story went live in the U.S. and take a quick snapshot of the prices.
Nobody seems to have the Gainward or Palit cards in stock, meaning they're really only here for exhibition, since you can't get your hands on them even if you wanted to. One of the other models currently sells for the same $400 Nvidia charges for its reference design, while the other three cost notably more. We're just happy that the GeForce GTX 670 launch wasn't a predominantly paper-oriented affair like GeForce GTX 680, with miniscule quantities trickling out from Nvidia's board partners. Many of these models appear to be readily available, in contrast.
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Where is the msi gtx 670 power edition?
Typo on conclusion. "not to loud on loud." That would be the Gigabyte card.
On the Gigabyte card's page:
[QUOTE]During the course of our testing, we effortlessly set this card to run at 1059 MHz, so we're not sure why Gigabyte held back so much. During testing, we overclocked this card to 1059 MHz quite easily, so we are somewhat surprised by the conservative factory overclock.[/QUOTE]
This seems to be saying the same thing twice. Error, or am I missing something?
hey man,where's MSi Twinfrozer IV OC edition?
Where is the msi gtx 670 power edition?
The roundup was published in German on May 22, 2012:
http://www.tomshardware.de/Nvidia- [...] 41027.html
Sorry, but at this time (and 4 weeks later too) MSI was unable to deliver one of this cards. When MSI starts so late with this cards, then this is not our fault.
Please do this with the 680s
Also, the second chart on the 'Sound Level and Temperature: Overclocked' page is missing the 'Mhz' label on the speed for the Palit card. It should read '1059 Mhz', while it reads only '1059'.
I'd like to see one for the 680s too, in which the 680 classified and lightning will be present, including others.
please also do battlefield 3 benchmark!
I've been waiting for this review.
So glad I bought the ASUS GTX 670 2 weeks ago now
please also do battlefield 3 benchmark!
All cards were tested for our charts too (with BF3). Please wait a little bit, our team will update this results soon.
My phone shows me the right content
iPhone? 
Love the video's on the graphic card sounds.
I am wondering, if it would make any difference for sound if the video card's fans were pointing down, instead of pointing at the side. Or if the fan's sound profile, would change because of the orientation of the card.
Where is this test lab located at? Middle East? Here in the US, most popular brands nVidia GPU are EVGA, MSI and I don't see they're on the list. That stopped me reading at page 2. Good night.
there have been some reports and rumours that retail 670/680 are achieving much less overclock/boost than the review samples.
can you take a look at that?
"Rather, we suspect a driver problem. There doesn't seem to be any other explanation."
Tired of this kind of selection bias where any aspect that is subpar is dismissed as a driver issue. Another explanation is the spec sheets are misleading or the conclusions you have about what to expect from extra hardware capacity are wrong.
I would like to read GTX 680 comparison too, and using PCIE 3.0 spec
All cards were tested for our charts too (with BF3). Please wait a little bit, our team will update this results soon.
thanks man,team toms FTW!