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As the Kepler architecture gets more affordable, we want to take a look at Zotac’s GeForce GTX 660 graphics card.
It's been nearly 6 months since the launch of the first Kepler GPUs, and due to 28nm production difficulties NVIDIA has spent the last 6 months with a sizable hole in their video card lineup between their high-end and budget cards. Since the launch of the GTX 680 in March, NVIDIA has launched the GTX 670 and much more recently the GTX 660 Ti to help close that gap, but they have still been in need of a true midrange GPU for mainstream cards. Today that hole is filling being filled, as NVIDIA is ready to launch the 3rd and final consumer Kepler GPU for the year. With GK104 at the high-end and GK107 at the low-end, the task of filling out the middle will fall to NVIDIA’s latest GPU: GK106.
As given away by the model number, GK106 is designed to fit in between GK104 and GK107. GK106 offers a more modest collection of functional blocks in exchange for a smaller die size and lower power consumption, making it a perfect fit for NVIDIA’s mainstream desktop products. GK106’s launch vehicle will be the GeForce GTX 660, the central member of NVIDIA’s mainstream video card lineup. GTX 660 is designed to come in between GTX 660 Ti and GTX 650 (also launching today), bringing Kepler and its improved performance down to the same $230 price range that the GTX 460 launched at nearly two years ago. NVIDIA has had a tremendous amount of success with the GTX 560 and GTX 460 families, so they’re looking to maintain this momentum with the GTX 660.
Today we are going to talk about one more unique graphics accelerator based on GeForce GTX 680 GPU. How does it differ from the previously reviewed Hi-End graphics accelerators on Nvidia “Kepler” processor ?
Another “lightning” from MSI combines all the goodness you can only imagine. Our today’s review will talk about this great product in detail and reveal its performance in all contemporary games including the new title – Sleeping Dogs.
The new product from Inno3D Company impressed us not that much with its performance or overclocking potential, but with its unprecedentedly low noise. Actually, it would be more correct to say the absence of noise. Read our review to find out how they managed to accomplish that.
Graphics cards based on Nvidia’s top GK104 “Kepler” graphics processor become more and more affordable. We have just recently talked about GeForce GTX 670, but time has already come to meet a new kid on the block – GeForce GTX 660 Ti!
NVIDIA has a bit of a problem right now: their products are a bit too popular. Between the GK104-heavy desktop GeForce lineup, the GK104 based Tesla K10, and the GK107-heavy mobile GeForce lineup, NVIDIA is selling every 28nm chip they can make. As a result NVIDIA has been unable to expand their market presence as quickly as customers would like. For the desktop in particular this means NVIDIA has a very large, very noticeable hole in their product lineup between $100 and $400, which composes the mainstream and performance market segments.
Long-term NVIDIA needs more production capacity and a wider selection of GPUs to fill this hole, but in the meantime they can at least begin to fill it with what they have to work with. This brings us to today’s product launch: the GeForce GTX 660 Ti. With nothing between GK104 and GK107 at the moment, NVIDIA is pushing out one more desktop product based on GK104 in order to bring Kepler to the performance market. Serving as an outlet for further binned GK104 GPUs, the GTX 660 Ti will be launching today as NVIDIA’s $300 performance part.
August is not typically a busy time of the year for the GPU industry. But this is quickly turning out to be anything but a normal August. Between professional and consumer graphics cards we have a busy week ahead.
Kicking things off on the consumer side today, AMD is announcing that they will be releasing a new Radeon HD 7950 with higher clockspeeds. The new 7950, to be called the Radeon HD 7950, is a revised version of the existing 7950 that is receiving the same performance enhancements that the 7970 received back in June, which were the basis of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.
How does the supercharged Radeon HD 7970 differ from the regular one and how does it compare to the predecessors and Nvidia competitors? Our today’s review will answer these and many other related questions you might have.
Let’s take a closer look at an EVGA graphics card with twice as much video memory onboard and figure out how we might benefit from it in different operational modes and games.