NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400

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• CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - link

  Are you going to put up with crashing amd drivers and a burning electric bill OC with added instability and a water tower cost and then all of a sudden save a miniscule bit on card cost ? Are you going to add to your suffering with no adaptive v-sync, no also added smooth frame rate target, no instant per game optimum settings from a massive nVidia server farm embedded automagically in the superior nVidia drivers ?
  
  Are you going to stand for no bezel peek feature ?
  Are you going to put up with the more expensive and hassled 3 monitor connection issues of the amd cards ?
  Are you going to sit there undisturbed by the epic failure of amd 3D gaming vs Nvidia's available and awesome implementation ?
  Are you going to put up with no amd 120hz monitor support there too ?
  
  Isn't your original stance there the very opposite of "no one buys these cards to run on just one monitor and certainly not 1900x1200" argument ?
  
  Since the amd overlcocks "so well" as you claim vs nVidia, what is amd releasing a pre overclocked version going to do other than allow amd partners to charge more ?
  ROFL - it will do nothing.

• saturn85 - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link

  the folding@home benchmark is great!!
  i think the performance unit "point per day (ppd)" is preferable compare to "nanosecond per day (ns/day)".

• TheMan876 - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link

  Glad to see 3 monitor resolutions getting benchmarked since I just moved to that setup. Can't wait to see SLI on this card!

• Death666Angel - Thursday, May 17, 2012 - link

  Prices for the GTX 670 and the HD 7970 are similar in Germany, at max a difference of about 30€. :-)
  If I had to buy a card today, I'd probably get a GTX 680, but I don't regret the 500€ I spent on a 7970 with a watercooling block and OC capabilities of 1300/1700. :-)

• Brainling - Thursday, May 24, 2012 - link

  I had been waiting patiently for the release of the 670 or the 660ti, depending on availability, cost and performance. After reading this review of the 670, I bought one on the spot (release day morning, while Newegg still had some)....it was a good decision.
  
  This card replaced an HD6870, and while that was a decent card, it's like night and day. In informal tests I did, I found this card to be twice as powerful in most scenarios. Nvidia has really outdone themselves with their new Kepler architecture. They've created one of the most powerful hyper-parallel architectures available to do, and have done so at greatly decreased power draw and heat (aka: less noise). It's rare to ever see my 670 spike above 60C, with the stock blower cooler.
  
  All in all a great purchase, and one I'm very glad I made.

• smartypnt4 - Sunday, May 27, 2012 - link

  I know they're on the site in other reviews, but it would be nice if you could include a few dual-GPU cards in the benchmark comparisons. It probably only matters to a few people like me, but it'd be nice to have.
  
  For me, I want them because I'm trying to make a decision: do I get a second 6950 to crossfire with the one I already have for $200, or do I go out and buy a new card?
  
  From what I've seen, outside the edge case games such as Batman and some of the games running on Frostbite, a 6990 pretty much trades blows with the 680 and the 7970. So, I'm thinking that for me, since I have the headroom in my PSU, getting a second 6950 makes a whole lot of sense, even though the setup will consume almost twice as much power as one new card.
  
  Just my two cents.

• codeus - Monday, June 4, 2012 - link

  Good review but so much focus on EVGA's warranty changes smacks of this being a sponsored (and therefore biased?) review.

• pilotofdoom - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link

  Anyone else notice that the GTX 670 outperformed the GTX 680 in the Microsoft’s Detail Tessellation test on Normal settings?
  
  I'm guessing it's a simple mistake, since there's no mention of the reversal in the text. Not like it really matters anyways, being a synthetic benchmark compared to actual gaming performance.

• chrisrobhay2 - Friday, June 29, 2012 - link

  Which leader does Anandtech use for the Civilization V Compute test? I'm just curious because my overclocked GTX 670 wipes the floor with all of these cards in almost all of the leader tests, so I want to make sure that I'm looking at the right information.

• warmbit - Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - link

  If you want to see what we really have GTX670 performance in games is worth taking a look at this overview:
  
  http://warmbit.blogspot.com/2012/05/analiza-wyniko...
  
  On the right side, select your language for translation (Google Translate).