(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Yes, NVIDIA has finally released these two power efficient cards that has got everyone excited to scream "Shut up and take my money".

Meet the 650


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Yes, nothing says hello like a GK107 card that comes to market at $110 bucks. It has 384 CUDA cores and 32 texture units, an it's capable of producing 16 full color pixels per clock cycle thanks to two ROP clusters.

This card does not support GPU boost, and must be manually overclocked. The standard card comes to market with two dual link DVI ports and one mini-HDMI output. However the Gigabyte one pictured above adds a very useful VGA connection. Seriously, who uses those things now?

The 650 has a beefy heatsink with a 100mm fan that performs well in both noise and thermal testing. The plastic shroud expands past the PCB, making it look longer. On top of that this card comes with a hideous blue PCB. But let's face it. It's in your case, and you're not going to pay to much attention to it.

Meet the GTX 660

This card uses a Kepler based chip called GK106. It has five SMX clusters that each have 192 CUDA cores. For a total of 960. Sixteen texture units per SMX gives us a total of 80 across the GPU. And three ROP clusters able to process 8 gives us 24 per clock cycle. It also comes with 2GB of Vram.

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You can see the enormous plastic shroud that makes the card look larger than it really needs to be. This card can use the GPU boost feature that NVIDIA boasts about, so that's a nice plus.

The base clock is 980MHz and the GPU boost average is about 1030MHz. Meaning you should notice a few frames of increased performance.

The reference design comes with two dual link DVI ports. One HDMI and a DisplayPort output. This matches the Ti version of the card. Both the 660ti and the 660 can support up to 4 monitors operating with three in surround mode. (3+1)

Lastly the 660 only supports dual configurations. No triple SLI or quad SLI here.

Benchmarks:

Sorry that you had to read all that. Now here's what really matters. Benchmarks.

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theese cards get decimated by the 7770 and 7870. nuff. AMD wins.

I cant wait to get my 660 next month woot woot

the regular 660 is trash and the 660ti is having some competitors like the 7950 boost they're getting cheap.