GTX 660 or 660 ti?

[SlammerBurgr]

I have been asking a bunch of questions about the 660 TI and I was almost settled on it, but it is it worth the money over the GTX660?

I am looking for a card to last me at least 3 years. I am stepping up from a 560 TI. I am playing The Witcher 2 now and I will being playing Dead Space 3 upon it's release, I would like to run them maxed out with no OC.

 

[determinologyz]

A 660 wouldnt outbeat a 660 Ti..Who told you that but yea a 660 would be a step under

 

[SlammerBurgr]

thats not a real reason. I would still strongly suggest against the 660 ti if you can get anything else, even a 660 would be a better buy.

It came down to the borderlands 2 thing. Newegg ended the promo, but TigerDirect still had it with free shipping so I got a nice deal

I looked at the 7950 quite a bit and the price gets pretty high for a good model.

Geforce wins this time guys.

 

[determinologyz]

I can admit when I am wrong haha. I am returning my 660TI to best buy today because I saw on newegg I can get the GigaByte OC model, 8gbs of 12800 kingston hyper RAM, and a coolermaster 212+ for less than what I paid for the card.

The only reason I am not getting the HD 7950 is that I think with my MOBO, CPU I have it will probably be bottleneck.

Btw if you can find a better 660 Ti model out there go for it but i wouldnt go from a 660 Ti to a 660 unless you trying to save cash but you will get a performance loss

 

[SlammerBurgr]

Btw if you can find a better 660 Ti model out there go for it but i wouldnt go from a 660 Ti to a 660 unless you trying to save cash but you will get a performance loss

I went with the Gigabyte OC model. I am planning a whole new build right now and this card is going to carry over into it, so I decided OC was necessary.

 

[determinologyz]

I went with the Gigabyte OC model. I am planning a whole new build right now and this card is going to carry over into it, so I decided OC was necessary.

Nice and the 660 Ti is good...I was in a position i could of went for the 670 but i plat at 1080p with 4xaa and lower so it doesnt bother me with the 192 bandwidth and i play all of my games just fine..Even crysis 3 as long as i can play at high settings im happy hell even the way they expanding the engine med settings wont look bad either due to them putting EXTRA work into it this time around..Developers is getting wicked with graphics now days

 

[esrever]

In all honesty the 660 ti is the worst nvidia card of this generation aside from the 640. Its severely nurtured in memory bandwidth and as such performance is being limited by memory, this causes lower minimal frame rates and a generally unbalanced card.
I don't know about you but there are many good 7950s below $300. The 7870 is also a better buy over the 660ti.

I hope you enjoy your card either way.

 

[determinologyz]

The bandwidth is greater on the card but it has lower memory speed..That kinda hurts it in a way now if it had 6Gbps like the 660 Ti the 7950 would smoke but it has 5Gbps so honestly both cards are equal untill you get into high res and more aa then yea the 7950 would win true just everyone has diff needs and difference taste in cards

 

[SlammerBurgr]

In all honesty the 660 ti is the worst nvidia card of this generation aside from the 640. Its severely nurtured in memory bandwidth and as such performance is being limited by memory, this causes lower minimal frame rates and a generally unbalanced card.
I don't know about you but there are many good 7950s below $300. The 7870 is also a better buy over the 660ti.

I hope you enjoy your card either way.

You know what you are talking about, I do not doubt you there, but definitely exaggerating a lot. All the comparisons I a have checked, and there are lots, show that they perform pretty much neck and neck until you go over 4xAA, and some games the 660 TI even out performs the 7950, and the 7950 is 200 watts! My PSU is only 600.

The cheapest one that I would go for was the MSI it was about $330, to get a good O.C. model the price went way up there on some models, the cheaper ones got garbage reviews on the Toms comparison, and it comes with sleeping dogs. I hated the true crime games on xbox and apparently this was supposed to be the third, no thanks, I will take Borderlands 2 running maxed out on a 660 TI cuz apparently it does, and it does it well.

Side note they both get bottlenecked my my CPU im pretty sure so if there is a benefit to the 7950 I probably wouldn't see it anyway. I saw a lot of improvement from my 560TI to the 660TI on The Witcher 2, so I know I am getting something out of it.

 

[esrever]

The watts isn't limiting. nvidia likes to quote lower numbers than AMD for their cards while both uses nearly the same power. Good 600w psus are more than enough for 2 or even 3 200w cards just so you know. Well, good luck on your card.

 

[Guest]

In all honesty the 660 ti is the worst nvidia card of this generation aside from the 640. Its severely nurtured in memory bandwidth and as such performance is being limited by memory, this causes lower minimal frame rates and a generally unbalanced card.
I don't know about you but there are many good 7950s below $300. The 7870 is also a better buy over the 660ti.

I hope you enjoy your card either way.

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Something to think about . Amd keeps falling down !