NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400
by Ryan Smith on May 10, 2012 9:00 AM ESTDiRT 3
For racing games our racer of choice continues to be DiRT, which is now in its 3rd iteration. Codemasters uses the same EGO engine between its DiRT, F1, and GRID series, so the performance of EGO has been relevant for a number of racing games over the years.
As was the case with the GTX 680, NVIDIA’s prospects improve significantly with DiRT 3. At 2560 the GTX 670 has now launched ahead of the 7950 by a comfortable margin and is within a few FPS of the 7970, still leaving it short but giving us our first sign that the GTX 670 can compete with AMD’s top card. What’s interesting to note here is that we seem to be particularly shader limited here even though DiRT 3 isn’t a highly intensive game, as the GTX 670 falls a bit further behind the GTX 680, leaving a 10% gap. Unfortunately EVGA’s factory overclock isn’t doing a ton here, once again improving performance by just 3% over our reference card.
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CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - link
Glad you claim to, the last 4 flagships historical pricing was $499. Time to face the facts you've been avoiding chizow, in order to bolster your conspiracy theory.mevans336 - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
If AMD responds with another 7970 like price-drop on the 7950 and can get it down to the low $300 range, I may wind up owning my first AMD card ever. Although, I'm not holding my breath for such a dramatic decrease.Jraptor59 - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
I have twice in my life, so far, gotten a AMD card over a Nvidia and regretted it so much I only buy Nvidia now.JlHADJOE - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
I've bought AMD once, but was very happy with it.Specifically, a 9500 256bit that unlocked into a 9700.
Kept it for quite a while, skipping Geforce 6 and 7 series, as well has ATI X1 and X2 series. I was very glad I did so, because my next upgrade was the 8800GT which was IMO the best bang-for-the-buck GPU ever made.
just4U - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
I buy alot of video cards.. not only for systems I build for others but also for myself.. and on average since the Radeon 8500 I see no reason not to buy from either company.Spunjji - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
Agreed; 8500 was a bitch.Spunjji - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
Classic! That little 9500 Pro was a beast. Looks like you hit the perfect generation tipping points too, as the 8800GT was a hell of a card.SlyNine - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
Than they released the 9600pro, I hated that card to no end (even tho I never bought one).But when I went to build other people computers, and couldn't choose the 9500. It made me sad.
anubis44 - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
The 8800GT was a great card, but the 4850 was the best bang for buck card I've seen so far.Spunjji - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
What on Earth did you buy that sucked so hard? I'm genuinely interested - I've been buying cards from both sides since the GeForce DDR and the only bad product I ever got was a failtastic G86-based mobile part. That black mark aside both vendors have served me well.