NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400
by Ryan Smith on May 10, 2012 9:00 AM ESTDiRT 3
For racing games our racer of choice continues to be DiRT, which is now in its 3rd iteration. Codemasters uses the same EGO engine between its DiRT, F1, and GRID series, so the performance of EGO has been relevant for a number of racing games over the years.
As was the case with the GTX 680, NVIDIA’s prospects improve significantly with DiRT 3. At 2560 the GTX 670 has now launched ahead of the 7950 by a comfortable margin and is within a few FPS of the 7970, still leaving it short but giving us our first sign that the GTX 670 can compete with AMD’s top card. What’s interesting to note here is that we seem to be particularly shader limited here even though DiRT 3 isn’t a highly intensive game, as the GTX 670 falls a bit further behind the GTX 680, leaving a 10% gap. Unfortunately EVGA’s factory overclock isn’t doing a ton here, once again improving performance by just 3% over our reference card.
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Blackchild1101 - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
I'll take two please!Ryan Smith - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
You'll get nothing and like it!(Sorry, was watching Caddyshack last weekend)
Wreckage - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
To think a few months ago you could have gotten a pair of 7970s for $1100.I'm betting there are a lot of sad AMD fans out there. Their viral marketing group in the forums is going to have a rough year for sure.
retrospooty - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
I doubt anyone that places happiness in their preferred companies products being #1 is all too happy to begin with ;)RampantAndroid - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
Sure, but realizing that waiting a few months could have saved them serious $$$.Same probably goes for GTX680 owners.
CeriseCogburn - Monday, May 28, 2012 - link
The partners of nVidia are going to be happy, because what comes out of the 680 and 670 is an auto overclock and an overclockable card, with locks on power increases, and therefore far, far less chance of anything burning out.Overclock to your hearts desire - you won't be burning these up while the amd cards will still be a housefire and cost the partners plenty to replace.
nVidia's partners are very, very happy.
JlHADJOE - Saturday, July 21, 2012 - link
They would if they have stocks invested though./putting money where fanboy mouth is
Lazlo Panaflex - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
Waaaaaah waaaaah I can't post in the forums waaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaahbtw, your mom says 'hi' & said to get back in the basement
wut - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
Oh no, YOUR MOM.Lazlo Panaflex - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - link
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