NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400
by Ryan Smith on May 10, 2012 9:00 AM ESTStarcraft II
Our next game is Starcraft II, Blizzard’s 2010 RTS megahit. Much like Portal 2 it’s a DX9 game designed to run on a wide range of hardware so performance is quite peppy with most high-end cards, but it can still challenge a GPU when it needs to.
Starcraft II is another game that just doesn’t seem to be pushing shading or texturing very hard, and as a result the GTX 670 does well for itself here. Against the GTX 680 it’s within 3%, while at 2560 it has a 10% lead over the 7970.
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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...
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