Nvidia's GeForce GTX 660 Ti Surfaces on Retail Site

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[citation][nom]vilenjan[/nom]Anyone else the 192bit memory bandwidth will cripple this card? If this is to be as fast as a 7870....[/citation]
Apparently not since it's actually faster than a 7950. No one that buys a budget card is playing on multiple screens or expensive 2560x1600 resolutions, so 1920x1600 performance is what matters most.
 
I'm still waiting for nVidia to offer meaningful competition around $110 +/- $25. Every now and then a deal turns up, but for the most part this segment is still owned by AMD. With the GT640 releasing with DDR3, it's as if nVidia doesn't even want to compete in the truly "budget" range.
 
so i guess the 7850 wont go down to a reasonable 200-225 anytime soon. Its jumped in price to 270 average on newegg. The market needs a great 200$ card. If one doesnt come out in a month im buying a used ps3. Price fixing pisses me off.
 
I guess its fine if you aren't going to overclock, but amd its still the king as far as overclocked price/performance goes.
 
[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]I'm still waiting for nVidia to offer meaningful competition around $110 +/- $25. Every now and then a deal turns up, but for the most part this segment is still owned by AMD. With the GT640 releasing with DDR3, it's as if nVidia doesn't even want to compete in the truly "budget" range.[/citation]I'm still waiting for Nvidia to offer better competition anywhere below $300, myself. I thought 660 Ti's launch would help rectify the situation, but looks like it won't be for a while after launch, or else after 660 vanilla comes out. The GT 640 had a lot of potential for the budget discrete market, but as you pointed out they crippled memory bandwidth. Allowing AMD to still top them in that segment.[citation][nom]dontcrosthestreams[/nom]so i guess the 7850 wont go down to a reasonable 200-225 anytime soon. Its jumped in price to 270 average on newegg. The market needs a great 200$ card. If one doesnt come out in a month im buying a used ps3. Price fixing pisses me off.[/citation]I call your BS, sir. Just checked 7850s on Newegg. Looks like a stock-clocked 7850 averages $240-250. Here's a GREAT deal on a no-frills 7850.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150617

$230, and a $20 rebate on TOP of that? If you're in the market for a $200-250 card, this is the one I'd be looking at.
 
I agree, the 192bit vs 256bit memory interface does matter! I have gone down the "it doesn't really matter" road twice already in the past, and never again. The GTX660Ti no doubt will be a great card, but only if it hits retail at $299, with custom designs incorporating 256bit memory at around the $330 mark. Otherwise, it makes no sense at all to settle for a crippled GTX670 when for not that much you get the real deal. (BestDirect.ca: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC = $290CND.).
 
AMD is there it is at right now for me. Gaming wise AMD and nVIDIA are neck and neck but Compute wise AMD leaves nVIDIA in the dust (mostly for Cryptography). I mean try mining Bitcoins/Litecoins on a GTX 6xx series... very very sad indeed.

A few weeks worth of mining and I've paid off my Graphics cards. So I'll be sticking with AMD until nVIDIA gets a clue.
 
[citation][nom]scanlia[/nom]$400! O.O![/citation]
due to the 16 trillion dollar national debt and the over printing of money and subsequent devaluation of the dollar yes that $100 car of the early 2000's that became the $200 card of the mid 2000's is now the $400 card.
you can thank every american politician for that runaway spending spree train wreck.
 
that's why lots of us are sticking with Fermi (best in Folding) until the GTX 7 or GTX 8 series;
hopefully then they will have gave up with gaming only and compute only separation..
 

Europe always gets hosed on their prices just like the Aussies do. A gtx 670 goes for $500+ in Australia and their dollar matches the US dollar right now.
 
[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]I'm still waiting for nVidia to offer meaningful competition around $110 +/- $25. Every now and then a deal turns up, but for the most part this segment is still owned by AMD. With the GT640 releasing with DDR3, it's as if nVidia doesn't even want to compete in the truly "budget" range.[/citation]
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-640-oem/specifications
There are 3 diff OEM GT640, one of them has GDDR5 actually, my guess is that card makers will ship them out to retail market.
[citation][nom]nacos[/nom]I guess its fine if you aren't going to overclock, but amd its still the king as far as overclocked price/performance goes.[/citation]
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4873/nvidia_geforce_gtx_660_ti_2gb_reference_video_card_overclocked/index1.html
Keep in mind that $400 price tag in Europe means $325 price tag in US. So GTX 660 Ti will have under $325 price tag, on stock clocks performance between 7950 and 7970, cards that go for $350 and $430 and above, and when overclocked performs marginally weaker than 7970 GHx Edition which goes around for $450 and up. Pray do tell me which AMD GPU with price tag of under $325 preforms near 7970 GHz Edition's level when overclocked? Because overclocked 7870 in most games performs between the GTX 580 level and the GTX 660 Ti on stock clock level.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4869/nvidia_geforce_gtx_660_ti_2gb_reference_video_card_review/index1.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/4873/nvidia_geforce_gtx_660_ti_2gb_reference_video_card_overclocked/index.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_7850_PCS_Plus/31.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_radeon_hd_7850_and_7870_review,23.html
 
I hope it sells for $300 or less, if they can sell it for $250, then it will be the king like the GTX 560 Ti was for mid range users. I may grab one of these for PhysX duty alongside my SLI GTX 670's.
 
Nvidia WebEx tomorrow about the 660 Ti, Tom's probably already knows, that means August 16th is the approx launch date, and Wolfgang's just messing with us. We'll know in 10 days.
 
[citation][nom]Hetneo[/nom]http://www.geforce.com/hardware/de [...] ificationsThere are 3 diff OEM GT640, one of them has GDDR5 actually, my guess is that card makers will ship them out to retail market.http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/ [...] ndex1.htmlKeep in mind that $400 price tag in Europe means $325 price tag in US. So GTX 660 Ti will have under $325 price tag, on stock clocks performance between 7950 and 7970, cards that go for $350 and $430 and above, and when overclocked performs marginally weaker than 7970 GHx Edition which goes around for $450 and up. Pray do tell me which AMD GPU with price tag of under $325 preforms near 7970 GHz Edition's level when overclocked? Because overclocked 7870 in most games performs between the GTX 580 level and the GTX 660 Ti on stock clock level.http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4 [...] ndex1.htmlhttp://www.tweaktown.com/articles/ [...] index.htmlhttp://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] us/31.htmlhttp://www.guru3d.com/articles_pag [...] ew,23.html[/citation]


I'm sorry that you actually take TweakTown's benches seriously.
An overclocked 7970 is roughly equal to an overclocked gtx 680 at 1080p, with the 7970 winning at any higher resolution. The same goes for the 7950 and the gtx 670. Anybody can post biased benches, but nothing compares to physically owning or having friends who own the GPUs to compare side by side.
 
This what happens when people categorize a mid-range card as high-end. GTX 660Ti is a mid-range card and to some it's the most entry level card for gaming. Well if a lot still say the GTX600Ti is "high-end", then you should have no problems paying $400 for it as $400-500 is consider to be in the high-end range.
Get a GTX670 if the price for the GTX660Ti isn't much of a difference.

 
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