Guru3D.com
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • Channels
    • Archive
  • DOWNLOADS
    • New Downloads
    • Categories
    • Archive
  • GAME REVIEWS
  • ARTICLES
    • Rig of the Month
    • Join ROTM
    • PC Buyers Guide
    • Guru3D VGA Charts
    • Editorials
    • Dated content
  • HARDWARE REVIEWS
    • Videocards
    • Processors
    • Audio
    • Motherboards
    • Memory and Flash
    • SSD Storage
    • Chassis
    • Media Players
    • Power Supply
    • Laptop and Mobile
    • Smartphone
    • Networking
    • Keyboard Mouse
    • Cooling
    • Search articles
    • Knowledgebase
    • More Categories
  • FORUMS
  • NEWSLETTER
  • CONTACT

New Reviews
Far Cry New Dawn PC graphics performance benchmark review
WD Black SN750 NVME SSD (1TB) Review
Battlefield V: DLSS PC Performance Update
Metro Exodus: PC graphics performance benchmarks
Team Group Delta S TUF RGB SSD Review
T-Force Delta TUF Gaming RGB Memory Review
AMD Radeon VII 16 GB review
DeepCool Captain 240 PRO review
Guru3D Rig of the Month - January 2019
Combo deal: Office 2016 Pro and W10 for $34

New Downloads
Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.0.9
AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.2.2 driver Download
GeForce 418.91 WHQL driver download
3DMark Download v2.8.6446 + Port Royale
Prime95 download version 29.5 build 10
Corsair Utility Engine Download (iCUE) Download v3.12.118
Cinebench R15 Extreme Edition Download
AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.2.1 driver Download
GeForce 418.81 WHQL driver download
ATTO Disk Benchmark download v4.00.0f2


New Forum Topics
Best Driver for GTX 980 OC Scanner: "Failed to start scanning!" The RTX 2080Ti Thread What time frame are we looking at for a 2080Ti replacement? Download: AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 19.2.2 driver Review: Metro Exodus: PC graphics performance analysis GeForce 418.91 WHQL driver download How to find out if a program locked up? Review: WD Black SN750 NVME SSD 1TB (2019) 2080 Stuttering / Microlags / Frametime Spikes




Guru3D.com » Review » MSI GeForce GTX 660 TwinFrozr III review » Page 1

MSI GeForce GTX 660 TwinFrozr III review - Introduction

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/14/2012 09:18 AM [ 4] 0 comment(s)

Tweet

 

MSI GTX 660


Meet the all new MSI GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr III edition. Yeah. We all have welcomed the GeForce GTX 660 Ti on the market a few weeks ago with a lot of positive feedback. Face it the Ti edition is good, very good .. but realistically being a mid-range product at the price in the 300 EUR/USD segment, it is still too expensive for mainstream.

That changes with the 'regular' GeForce GTX 660 that is released as we speak. The GeForce GTX 660 is based on a new chip, the GK106. The card will be one of the more anticipated dedicated graphics card series for a long time as the price performance ration of the GeForce GTX 660 should be pretty interesting. This product is going to sit in the 229 EUR/USD segment of the market, and can address pretty much any modern game at everybody's favorite monitor resolution 1920x1080/1200 with extremely acceptable framerates and image quality settings.

Being based on the Kepler GPU architecture obviously NVIDIA had to put some breaks on it in order for the 660 series of product not to compete too much with their bigger brothers. Being more cost effective to produce the GK106 silicon was designed, it really is a new chip, opposed to the GK104 being used on the 660 Ti model.

NVIDIA shaved down the the number of shader processors a little towards 960 (active) if you compare a little with high-end. To understand the positioning a little better simply keep keep in mind that the GeForce GTX 680 has 1536 of them. So that's  roughly 38% less shader processors. More had to be done though, the  GeForce GTX 670 and 680 all use a 256-bit memory bus, and the GTX 660 series has a 192-bit memory bus tied towards 2 GB of memory. But with the memory running at 6008 MHz in combo with the memory bandwidth gDDR5 memory these days offers, really the difference will be noticeable but certainly not by excessive standards. The last change can be found in the raster operation engine, now cut down to 24 units opposed to 32 that the 670 and 680 use. More on that latest in the technology overview of this article though.

The ever so popular clock frequencies then, the reference (baseline) products will be clocked at 980 MHz and are to boost towards 1033 MHz. Realistically though the boost feature is an average, and you'll notice that these cards will boost to roughly 1100 MHz. With a TDP of 140 Watts the GeForce GTX 660 isn't going to consume heaps of power either, in fact with your average gaming experience the card typically uses roughly 115 Watt as we have measured. Not bad, no Sir.

The GeForce GTX 660 graphics cards will be launched in the 229 USD range. For that amount of money it becomes an accessible product series for many games, and with so many PC games being released this year that will make this series a might fine offering.

Now there will be MANY of SKU's released by the board partners, we'll handle them in chronological order as the come in -- for this review we'll look at an offering from MSI in the form of a GeForce GTX 660 TwinFrozer III edition, it's already factory overclocked for you, comes in a custom design PCB out and is custom cooled. Combined with MSI's Military component usage you may expect something sturdy and well performing. Let's head on over to the next page shall we ?

MSI GTX 660




27 pages 1 2 3 4 next »



Related Articles
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z review
Oh yeah, we review the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z, the beast has been unleashed with highly clocked factory tweaks and a completely new look. That look entails a gorgeous RGB lighting system...

MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z review
We review the new MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z edition. This is a more premium line of gaming series products. MSI has already tweaked the cards towards an 1830 MHz Boost frequency for you, making this a v...

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X TRIO review
Today we review another GeForce RTX offering from MSI,  the Gaming X Trio edition from MSI. It cools great, it's incredibly silent and most of all, it's has a factory tweak out of the box that is ...

MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Gaming Z review
We review what could be the most exquisite GeForce RTX 2070 of them all, the Gaming Z edition from MSI. It cools great, it's incredibly silent and most of all, it's factory tweak out of the ...

© 2019