GTX 660 v GTX 660 Ti? (Or alternative advice)

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Hi guys I'm looking at getting a new graphics card in the short future and I've been looking at the 660's as they're supposed to be really good value for performance however I've hit a stump.

I've noticed there is a '660' and a '660 Ti' however the only difference I can spot between there are below...

.....................GTX 660...-...GTX 660 Ti
Cores................960.......-......1344
Core clock......1046 MHz....-.....915 MHz
Boost clock.....1111 MHz...-......980 MHz
Price................£162.......-......£200

From the specs these are the ONLY difference.

What's the difference... is it worth the extra money for a few more cores and less speed? If someone could put this into perspective as I'm not a pro at this.

Cheers in advance, also if you have any other card recommendation please let me know... reasonable price please :)

(Will be upgrading from an ATI Radeon HD 5830 (XFX))
 
Depends on who manufactures the GPU as well. You can get an ASUS or EVGA Superclocked version of the 660 which will alter performance and spec list.

I overclocked mine to what is now comparable to a ti version.
 
Hi Dan,

Both of the models I compared are EVGA manufactured, also the standard 660 GTX above is the "Superclocked" edition.

ALSO: Noticed your a DayZ player... get in game with us and the OC3D AfterShocks Team :)

Thanks
 
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The ti version supports 3-way SLI as opposed to the 660's 2-way SLI.

I'm very happy with the performance of my 660 and the price to performance difference over the two cards doesn't justify it in my opinion.
 
Thanks for your help I'll look deeper into it :) I don't plan on SLI yet anyhow.

I'll see what others have to say too, thanks!
 
Don't forget the GTX 660 has a GK106 GPU, and the 660Ti has a GK104. And a GK104 is quite a bit better ;)
I agree on the GTX 760, it's great.
 
Feronix said:
The GTX 760 out-performs both (comes close to a 670) and Scan has a few for 200-210 pounds :)
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Silly me, I looked at the page and ignored it as I saw £220 and instantly thought, nope.

Might look at these 760's then. I don't mine paying the extra £20 as long as it's drastically better which I'm sure it is.

I can see 3 EVGA's on there between £205 to £221, is it worth getting the superclocked one?

Thanks
 
Secrets said:
Silly me, I looked at the page and ignored it as I saw £220 and instantly thought, nope.

Might look at these 760's then. I don't mine paying the extra £20 as long as it's drastically better which I'm sure it is.

I can see 3 EVGA's on there between £205 to £221, is it worth getting the superclocked one?

Thanks
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I think I'd personally stretch for this one:
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-...u-980mhz-boost-1033mhz-cores-1152-dp-dvi-hdmi

One of the cheaper cards with a non-reference cooler. You can always overclock it more yourself if you feel that you need the performance :)

(I was actually thinking of buying this for my new rig :lol:)
 
When you say 'non-reference cooler' I presume that a 'Reference cooler' is the standard EVGA cooler which comes on most models?

A non-ref is a custom/3rd party cooler? (Better?)

Thanks
 
Reference coolers are the blower style ones that only have one (odd looking) fan on the right of the cooler and pushes the warm air out the back of the card/case.

Anything that's not that is non-reference :)
 
The "overclocked" versions of 660 TI are supposedly hand picked and tested by brand name companies and come with a brand name cooler (stay away from anything with Ghost Thermal on it.) Chances of getting a defect card should then be far less. I recently aquired x2 MSI 660 TI Power Edition cards for SLI. So far no probs, and all optimized games so far run good, even the ones that are not SLI enabled. But if you want to plan for the futured, I'd expand my budget and buy a slightly better single card. TI editions are well worth it imo. You usually get better aftermarket coolers, and the cards are far less likely to ship with a defect.
 
^Wasn't the Ghost Thermal stuff from XFX? They don't do Nvidia cards though.

That said, I can tell that you haven't read the topic as a GTX 760 would be better and has overclocked editions and aftermarket coolers as well :)
 
760 is the only smart card to get on budget. All other cards for the price are't worth it.. A 760 competes with a 7950/670 for hardly any money.
 
I didn't actually expect a 760 to beat a 7950. More along the lines of a 7870 Tahiti LE, but that's good news then :)

Higher memory bandwith will only help you when you want to run resolutions greater than 1080p. Or when you want to play open world games with tonnes of mods, but then the performance difference would still be fairly small.
 
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Secrets said:
I looked at comparing the GTX 760 to AMD 7950

http://www.hwcompare.com/14813/geforce-gtx-760-vs-radeon-hd-7950/

I noticed the AMD card competes well but the GTX is superior in terms on texel and pixel rate's which is probably more important than the memory bandwidth... which the 7950 wins on. The power consumption is also far better on the 760.

I think that solves the problem here...
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That website is pointless. Its just random calculations and not anything based off real world performance.
 
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