NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400
by Ryan Smith on May 10, 2012 9:00 AM ESTBattlefield 3
Its popularity aside, Battlefield 3 may be the most interesting game in our benchmark suite for a single reason: it’s the first AAA DX10+ game. It’s been 5 years since the launch of the first DX10 GPUs, and 3 whole process node shrinks later we’re finally to the point where games are using DX10’s functionality as a baseline rather than an addition. Not surprisingly BF3 is one of the best looking games in our suite, but as with past Battlefield games that beauty comes with a high performance cost.
Battlefield 3 has been NVIDIA’s crown jewel; a widely played multiplayer game with a clear lead for NVIDIA hardware. As a result the GTX 670 has another great showing here, easily outperforming AMD’s best. At 2560 with FXAA (and 1920 with MSAA) the GTX 670 has just enough performance to crack 60fps, which means it should be able to keep above 30fps even in larger firefights.
Interestingly enough however this is another game that the GTX 670 does very well at compared to the GTX 680. At 1920 with MSAA in particular the GTX 680 only leads by 3%, reinforcing the fact that as a consequence of giving the GTX 670 all of the GTX 680’s memory bandwidth that the GTX 680 doesn’t have very many tricks up its sleeve to lead with. This also means that the GTX 670 does particularly well here compared to the GTX 570, leading by 55% or more at every resolution and setting.
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SlyNine - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
I'm starting to think you're alittle crazy.CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - link
Say it 3 more times ( as you have already), it certainly invalidates all the reasons why the amd card loses badly.Nice, desperate try there. Not.
medi01 - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link
Let me guess: because you can actually get either 680 or 670 at the announced price (if at all), eh?So you can't? And when you will be able to get one, street price would probably be higher than MSRP, eh?
So what are you buzzing about?
CeriseCogburn - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link
Oh that's too bad, you're wrong again. 670 still 399 at the egg.Order, go ahead in STOCK.
How about someone ban you for just being a smart aleck, isn't that what a zealout of no use whatsoever really is ? Are you going to claim this is your joke and rip on others place ? Why didn't you check availability or read about it in the article the reviewer in fact went into quite some detail and extrapolation on the differences between this and the 680 and 690, but you never read the review did you ?
You just come here to attack others and smart off for amd points.
SlyNine - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
I got a GTX680 for 499$, but still he needs to chill. If someone bought a 7970 before the 670GTX came out it might have been the fast card they could find for the money.Not counting dual GPU solutions of course ( I hate those).
CeriseCogburn - Sunday, May 13, 2012 - link
I wonder who that someone would be, yours truly.I guess your comprehension skills are not really up to par.
Spunjji - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link
Trololol "viral marketing group". xDHe's just pissed off because he thinks the other side are getting paid for being mindless bigots...
CeriseCogburn - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link
No it's clear none of you are being paid a dime, not even a single housefire amd 7970 woodscrew.CeriseCogburn - Friday, May 11, 2012 - link
This should make the amd fans happy, immense amd bias by the reviewer, again.TWS2
" The GTX 570 and it’s increasingly puny 1.25GB of RAM can’t even run this game with our 2560 benchmark settings "
What the reviewer forgets to mention is that at 2560 and their benchmark settings not a single card present is playable, all under 29 fps and the majority under 20.
ROFL
That might be entirely different without the new game patch bug that affects only nVidia, but the very fact that the reviewer moans about "the 570" "puny ram" problem while noting a COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE GAME BENCHMARK FROM THE HIGHEST TIERED 3G RAM AMD FLAGSHIP CARD...
Where exactly is the brain ?
This is the kind of crap we have to put up with here, at least we who have a brain and can see what's going on.
I guess the amd fanboys can thank the reviewer for further perpetuation of the ram bottleneck MYTH.
What a JOKE ATTACK on the nVidia card.
Worse yet, on the very next page, the very same GTX570 beats the amd opposition 2G ram 7870 at 2560 but it can't be mentioned.
SlyNine - Saturday, May 12, 2012 - link
lol, the 7970 runs it at 28. Which is playable in a game like that.Funny the 7970 is by far more playable at that res. thanks for pointing that out.
Of course once Nvidia fixes the bug they should rerun the test.