Review: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 & SLI
Published by Christian Ney on 13.09.12Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| With the GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA really succeeded in releasing a midrange graphics card which offers an excellent price/performanc ratio. For as little as 189 Euros (est. CHF 223.-) you get a card that is indeed more then 60 percent faster than the still widely spread GeForce GTX 460. In our benchmarking parcours the GTX 660 was even capable of leaving the Radeon HD 7870 about 3 percent behind on average. Furthermore there is the power consumption, which also is on an excellent level: 60 Watt idle and 195 Watt under load, that's what we measured with our test setup. | - Price - Performance - Power Consumption | ||
| Performance | + | - | |
| Looking at ingame performance one
can see that the GTX 660 is about five percent slower than the GTX 660
Ti. As a side note we want to mention that the GTX 660 Ti is as fast the
former high-end card GTX 580. In other words: for 20 percent less you
get a card that is only five percent slower, since the price fot the GTX
660 is 189 Euros and the price for the GTX 660 Ti is about 220 Euros. In
our opinion this looks like a great deal! Furthermore comparing the
results to a Radeon HD 7870 we saw that the GTX 660 can keep up even
with this card. In this review we were not only looking at single GPU performance we also tested a GTX 660 SLI configuration. In this regard we also got some really interesting results. It turns out that two GTX 660 cards are 25 percent faster on average then one GTX 680 Furthermore the scaling was good too: on average 64 percent. Considering that two GTX 660's are cheaper than one GTX 680, this cheap little card just got even more interesting. |
- Performance - 63 % faster than the GTX 460 - Only 5 % slower than the GTX 580 - Up to 200 % performance improvement in SLI |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| So in the end the GeForce GTX 660 graphics card from nVidia powered by the GK106 is here to fight with the Radeon HD 7870/7850 from AMD. With almost the same performance/price and power consumption as the HD 7870, both nVidia and AMD have very powerful cards for in the 180 Euros range. Gamers will be really happy about this. | - Gaming |
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