Seven GeForce GTX 660 Ti Cards: Exploring Memory Bandwidth

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Seven GeForce GTX 660 Tis landed in our lab. Today, we're benchmarking them, measuring their noise and temperatures, and conducting a more in-depth analysis of the impact a 192-bit memory interface has on performance. The results are enlightening!

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 660 Ti Windforce 2X OC Edition

After our first round of benchmarks on Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 660 Ti Windforce 2X OC Edition (GV-N66TOC-2GC), we helped the company come up with a better BIOS for the card. It keeps the cooler's fans spinning slower at idle without sacrificing thermal performance. We re-ran all of our tests using the new BIOS, and made sure that Gigabyte knew it needed to make the file available publicly, just as it did with the GeForce GTX 670 and 680 we critiqued for being louder than necessary.

We had high expectations of Gigabyte's GeForce GTX 660 Ti Windforce 2X OC Edition after the company's great showing in our seven-way GeForce GTX 670 round-up. It's using a new Windforce cooler with twin 100 mm fans. This is a new approach, so we're curious to see how the board fares under load. Gigabyte's card is also the slimmest one in today's story, making it a reasonable choice for multi-card SLI arrays.

Igor Wallossek
Igor Wallossek
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Igor Wallossek wrote a wide variety of hardware articles for Tom's Hardware, with a strong focus on technical analysis and in-depth reviews. His contributions have spanned a broad spectrum of PC components, including GPUs, CPUs, workstations, and PC builds. His insightful articles provide readers with detailed knowledge to make informed decisions in the ever-evolving tech landscape