 Hello my friend, stay a while and listen. Awful. But, this review isn't. So this is all about the GeForce 660 Ti, which is the all new Nvidia graphics card that is coming in at a lower price point than the GTX 670, which came in at a lower price point than the GTX 680. But what's crazy about this is that they're all built on the same graphics core technology, which is the GK104 core. That means you've got full support for adaptive v-sync, you've got full support for the latest anti-aliasing modes including FXAA and TXAA, you've got GPU boost, which is very cool, which basically just detects how power hungry the game you're running is, and if it happens to be a little bit less power hungry, it can squeeze some more GPU frequency out of the core and maintain the power threshold and heat threshold that the card needs, then it will actually increase the clock of your GPU, giving you better FPS in real world applications games. So that's really cool. While it may not be as good for benchmarking in FurMark, which most people don't need to do because what you really want to do with a graphics card is play games, then I totally vote for that technology. So there's a couple different cards that we're looking at here today. The one that we did the bulk of the benchmarking on is the GTX 660 Ti Power Edition from MSI. However, we also did take some readings with the Galaxy GTX 660 Ti GC with their dual fan cooler. So what we did find was that due to the over-volting capability of the Power Edition, we were able to overclock higher on this card. However, the Galaxy card did run significantly cooler, about seven degrees cooler than the MSI card under a realistic gaming load. So in this case, we used Crysis 2 in order to get all of our gaming load temperatures as well as our gaming load power consumption. And we are using... Let's see, which games did we test? So we tested Crysis 2, Witcher 2, Skyrim, which didn't end up being very GPU limited at all. So that one was kind of pointless. Metro 2033, as well as one other game which is escaping me right now, but maybe Slick can remind me. And we already said Witcher. Battlefield 3. So we did five games finding out where these cards fall in terms of performance. So we did the 660 Ti, because that's the card of the day. Okay, 660 Ti, very important performance numbers. We did the 560 Ti, because we wanted to see how the new 660 Ti performs compared to the card that it is replacing in that sort of $250 to $300 segment, although the 660 Ti comes in at the high end of that segment. We did the 670 to find out how the 660 Ti compares to its older brother. So if you want to shell out another $100, what do you get? We did the Radeon HD 7870, and in this case we used a... What is this? A hawk? Yeah, a hawk edition card, because it doesn't cost much more than a regular 7870. And we want to compare real 660 Ti's you can buy to real cards that you can buy on the market today to compare it against. We actually have a Sapphire 7950 that's running on that test bench over there that we used to compare because the 660 Ti falls right between the 7870 and the 7950 in terms of pricing. But what you're going to see is that at 1080p performance is actually closer to a 7950 than it is to a 7870. So that is the range of cards. Stick with me guys, and we're going to walk through all the performance numbers together of this all new and very exciting graphics card. So we're going to start with Crysis 2 benchmarks. So you can see right here the GTX 660 Ti power edition actually performs as well or better than the 7950 Dual X from Sapphire. Remember, this is an overclocked, factory overclocked 7950 and dramatically outperforms the 7870 hawk. It actually comes within spitting distance. This is a bit of an anomaly, this difference in the minimum FPS. So the red bar is average and the blue bar is minimum, but you can see it performs within about 10% of the 670 reference card, which means that once we overclock this a little more we can probably get pretty close. I'm going to be doing a separate video about overclocking. The 560 Ti gets destroyed in every possible way, so if you have one of these, the 660 Ti is a worthy upgrade. It should be noted we're running on the ultra-highest presets at 1080p with medium motion blur and high-res textures enabled. This is a custom game run-through. Every benchmark we do is a run-through in-game recorded with Fraps. We are not using any canned benchmarks on this YouTube show. Battlefield 3 is another big win for the 660 Ti. So this is at ultra-presets and this is single-player gameplay, guys. We are going to do a separate video comparing the GTX 660 Ti to the 7950 directly in Battlefield 3 multiplayer. We've been asked for that a lot of times, so look for that on my channel as well in the next little while here, and Slick's going to do some run-throughs in a nice full server where you can really see how these perform in the most intensive possible Battlefield 3 scenario. So moving right along, yeah, big winner. It has a slightly lower dip in terms of minimum FPS compared to the 7950 dual, but it should be noted that because we're doing real run-throughs, you have to take these minimum dips with a grain of salt because you never know. So weird glitches can happen to the best of graphics cards and you can't really control that. The 560 Ti gets its butt handed to it thoroughly again. I think a big part of this is due to the fact that it's only got one gig of video memory when everything else here has two gigs, three gigs, two gigs, and two gigs. And you can once again see the 660 Ti power edition, almost called Platinum Edition. Can you tell I've been doing this a long time? The last card called Platinum Edition was an X800 AGP, yes, and gets dangerously close to that 670 performance mark. Skyrim with high texture pack enabled also just destroyed our 560 Ti. This was not pretty, so let's sort of just ignore that. So we'll have a look at how the 660 Ti did. This is one where the 670 with its additional memory bandwidth seemed to really pull away from the 660 Ti, but even then the 660 Ti hung with the 7950 as opposed to with the 7870. For Witcher 2, we're using a slightly custom configuration, high spec with vertical sync disabled so that we can get the maximum FPS. Mind you, it never really goes over 120 FPS anyway. We're using a 120 hertz monitor. So on this one, you see that the 7950 dipped a little bit low. This is not representative. It should be more like probably in this range. It was a bit of an anomaly. However, we can still look at the average FPS numbers and see that the 660 Ti PE, for the first time, landed around where its price point is, which is between a 7870 and a 7950 instead of running right with the 7950, which is a more expensive GPU. The 670 again performs a little bit better than the 660 Ti, so no real surprises here. And once again, in Metro 2033, the GTX 660 Ti destroys the card it's replacing, and it's not as close to the 670 in this one, but actually here I'm going to cheat. I'm going to show you guys a preview from our overclocked performance guide. But you're going to see that in Metro 2033, the 660 Ti... Oh no, it still trails behind in a big way in Metro 20... Okay, forget it. So it's more like a 7870 in terms of performance in this particular title, but I think this shows us a good cross-section of which titles the 660 Ti performs more like a 7950 and which titles it performs kind of exactly where it's supposed to be, and in a worst-case scenario, it performs about like a 7870, which is what the pricing is sort of closest to if you don't factor in mail and rebates. However, if you factor in mail and rebates, some of the 7870s are priced pretty aggressively. So I think that pretty much wraps it up. If you want 3D vision, if you want NVIDIA's surround as opposed to AMD iFINITY, if you want Fizz X, then you will have to go with a GeForce card, and if you want the best price to performance ratio right now for GeForce, the 660 Ti is looking like it because it just rocks the last generation stuff in terms of performance without demanding a huge premium on the price. So thank you for checking out this review for 1080p performance of the GTX 660 Ti. Remember, we got a couple here. So there is an SLI performance review coming where we're going to be comparing it directly to a GTX 680 because all of a sudden, buying two of these is not that much more expensive than buying a single 680, so that's an interesting scenario because they should perform pretty well. So we got two of them. We'll show them off then, and I think that pretty much wraps it up. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.