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hello my friend stay a while and listen awful but this review isn't so this is all about the g-force 660ti which is the all-new Nvidia graphics card that is coming in at a lower price point than the GTX 670 which came in at a lower price point than the GTX 680 but what's crazy about this is that they're all built on the same graphics whips core technology which is the GK 104 core that means you've got full support for adaptive vsync you've got full support for the latest anti-aliasing modes including FXAA and TxAA you've got GPU boost which is very cool which basically just detects how power-hungry the game you're running is and if it happens to be a little bit less power-hungry and it can squeeze some more GPU frequency out of the core and maintain the power threshold and heat threshold that the card needs then it will actually increase the clock of your GPU giving you better fps in real-world applications games so that's really cool while it may not be as good for benchmarking and burr mark which most people don't need to do because what you really want to do with the graphic part is play games then I totally vote for that technology so there's a couple different cards that we're looking at here today the one that we did the bulk of the benchmarking on is the gtx 660ti power edition from msi however we also did take some readings with the galaxy gtx 660ti GC with their dual fan cooler so what we did find was that due to the over Bolton capability of the power Edition we were able to overclock higher on this card however the galaxy card did run significantly cooler about seven degrees cooler than the MSI card under a realistic gaming load so in this case we use Crysis 2 in order to get all of our gaming low temperatures as well as our gaming load power consumption and we are using C which games do we test that we tested Crysis 2 which or - skyrim which didn't end up being very GPU limited at all so you're not going kind of pointless metro 2033 as well as one other game which is escaping me right now but maybe slick can remind me and we are a Jed witchery battlefield 3 battlefield 3 so we did five games finding out where these cards fall in terms of performance so we did the 660ti because that's the card of the day okay 650th yeah very important performance numbers we did the 560 Ti because we wanted to see how the new 660ti performs compared to the card that it is replacing in that sort of 250 to 300 dollar segmental though the 660ti comes in at the high end of that segment we did the 670 to find out how the 660ti compares to its older brother so if you want to shell out another hundred bucks what do you get we did the Radeon HD 7870 and in this case we used a what is this a hockey a hawk edition card because it doesn't cost much more than a regular 78 70 and we want to compare real 660ti as you can buy two real cards that you can buy on the market today to compare it against we actually have a sapphire 7950 that's running on that test bench over there that we use to compare because the 660ti falls right between the 7870 and the 7950 in terms of pricing but what you're going to see is that at 1080p performance is actually closer to a 7950 than it is to a 7870 so that is the range of cards stick with me guys and we're gonna walk through all the performance numbers together of this all new and very exciting graphics card so we're gonna start with Crysis 2 benchmarks so you can see right here the gtx 660ti power edition actually performs as well or better than the 7950 dual-x from sci-fi remember this is an overclocked factory overclocked 7950 and dramatically outperforms the 7870 Hawk it actually comes within spitting distance this is a bit of an anomaly this difference in the minimum fps so the red bar is average and the blue bar is minimum but you can see it performs within about 10% of the 60s via beer 670 reference card which means that once we overclocked this a little more we can probably get pretty close I'm going to be doing a separate video about overclocking the 560 Ti gets destroyed in every possible way so you have one of these the 660ti is a worthy upgrade it should be noted we're running on the ultra highest presets at 1080p with medium motion blur and high res textures enabled this is a custom game run through every benchmark we do is a run through in game recorded with fraps we are not using any canned benchmarks on this YouTube show Battlefield 3 is another big win for the 660ti so this is that ultra presets and this is a single-player gameplay guys we are gonna do a separate video comparing the gtx 660ti to the 7950 directly in battlefield 3 multiplayer we've been asked for that a lot of times so look for that on my channel as well in the next little while here and Slick's gonna do some run throughs in a nice full server where you can really see how these perform in aid the most intensive possible battlefield 3 scenario so moving right along yeah big winner it has a slightly lower dip in terms of minimum FPS compared to the 7950 duel but it should be noted that because we're doing real run throughs you have to take these minimum dips with a grain of salt because you never know some weird glitches can happen to the best of graphics cards and you can't really control that the 560 Ti gets its butt handed to it thoroughly again I think a big part of this is due to the fact that it's only got 1 gig of video memory when everything else here has two gigs three gigs two gigs and two gigs and you can once again see a 660ti plat power Edition Hummels Platinum Edition can you tell it can you tell I've been like doing this a long time the last part called Platinum Edition was an X 800 AGP just and gets dangerously close to that 670 performance mark Skyrim with high texture pack and abled also just destroyed our 560 Ti this was not pretty so let's uh let's sort of just you know ignore that so we'll have a look at how the 660ti did this is one where the 670 with its additional memory bandwidth seemed to really pull away from the 660ti but even then the 660ti hung with the 7950 as opposed to with the 78-74 witcher 2 you were using a slightly custom configuration high spec with verticals disabled so that we can get the maximum FPS mind you it never really close over 120 FPS anyway we're using the 120 Hertz monitor so on this one you see that the 7950 dipped a little bit low this is not representative it should be more like probably in this range it was a bit of an anomaly however we can still look at the average FPS numbers and see that the 660ti PE for the first time landed around where its price point is which is between a seventy eight seventy and a seventy nine fifty instead of running right with the 79 50 which is a more expensive GPU the six seven eight again performs a little bit better than 660ti so no real surprises here and once again in Metro 2033 the gtx 660ti destroys the card its replacing and it's not as close to the 670 in this one but actually here i'm going to cheat i'm going to show you guys a preview from our overclocked performance guide but you're gonna see that in Metro 2033 the 660ti oh no it still trails behind it in big way and nitrifying okay forget it so it's it's more like a seventy eight seventy in terms of performance in this particular title but I think this shows us a good cross-section of which titles 660ti performs more like a seventy nine fifty and which titles it performs kind of exactly where it's supposed to be and in a worst case scenario performs about like a seventy eight seventy which is what the pricing is sort of closest to if you don't factor in mail-in rebates however if you factor in mail-in rebates some of the 1770s are priced pretty aggressively so I think that pretty much wraps up if you want 3d vision if you want and videos surround as opposed to AMD eyefinity if you want physics then you will have to go with the geforce card and if you want the best price to performance ratio right now for geforce the 660ti is looking like it because it just rocks the last generation stuff in terms of performance without demanding a huge premium on the price so thank you for checking out this review for 1080p performance of the gtx 660ti remember we've got a couple here so there is an sli performance review coming where we're going to be comparing it directly to a gtx 680 because all of a sudden buying two of these is not that much more expensive than buying a single 680 so that's an interesting scenario because they should perform pretty well so we got two of them we'll show them off bed and I think that pretty much wraps it up don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos