Overall and FV
Once again, much like the GTX 660 Ti, I came away from testing the GTX 660 impressed. At a $70 price drop when compared to the GTX 660 Ti there just isn’t that big of a difference in performance. That means that Nvidia is introducing a card to the market that performs amazing at a price point that even more people will be able to afford. Of course if money wasn’t an option I would go with the GTX 660 Ti or higher for more CUDA cores. But when benchmarking and gaming at a resolution of 1080p, you are going to have a hard time finding games this card won’t play at nearly 60 FPS. As far as the competition from AMD, we haven’t officially gotten a GHz 7870 to put to the test. Our original performance numbers from the overclocked XFX 7870 should be close though and it does slightly outperform the GTX 660. Of course they are listed starting at $260 with a rebate to get you down to $240. The GTX 660 is slightly cheaper and you don’t have to jump through rebate hoops.
As long as Nvidia and AMD continue to push prices down and increase performance of their cards to compete with each other, the customers like you guys can’t really loose.
What about the card that EVGA provided us with. This time around we tested both stock and overclocked speeds to give you guys a better idea of what the Superclocked performance was getting you. Honestly, I was impressed that we saw the difference that we did. It might seem slight in some cases, but the Superclocked version is like a midway between the GTX 660 Ti and the GTX 660. Even better is the card itself will be sold at the same $229.99 price point that Nvidia has priced stock speed cards at.
Going with the EVGA card does get you a few benefit’s though. On top of the slick two-tone styling that I love, you also get typical EVGA support. That means you have a 3 year warranty that can be upgraded to 5 and 10 years if needed. The warranty is transferable and you don’t even need to have an account to RMA. You also have everything else that EVGA is known for with the step up program and US based customer support.
The GTX 660 also comes with EVGA’s Precision X software that can be used to inch even more performance out of your card as well as control and monitor your temperatures and fan speeds. They have even made a specific skin designed for the GTX 660 to show off what card you have in your software.
