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  • Nvidia Set To Launch GeForce GTX 660Ti In August

    Nvidia has been on fire lately. They have successfully launched the latest line of graphics cards in their 600 series and have continuously reduced the price of these cards through incremental downgrades that don’t seem to affect the performance whatsoever. Case in point: the 670 and 680 have negligible differences in power yet there’s a $100 price difference. The latest card looks to continue that trend.

    Nvidia’s latest card to hit based on the GK104 architecture will be the GeForce GTX 660Ti. WCCFTech says that it will be last card released to be based on the current architecture as Nvidia will probably start work on the 700 series. For now, we can bask in the glory of the full line of 600 series video cards from the beast that is the 690 to the mid-tier 660Ti that is still more powerful than the GTX 580.

    What are you going to get in the GTX 660Ti? It would be that it’s similar to the 670 in that it contains 1334 cores, but it’s memory would be limited to only 1.5GB. It will also be clocked a bit lower resulting in an eight to 10 percent drop in performance from the 670. That’s a small price to pay for its $100 price difference as the card will launch at a very affordable $299.

    WCCFTech says that Nvidia has already dropped the price of the GTX 570 to reduce stock so now’s your chance to grab a great 500 series for a cheap price as well. If you want to upgrade to the 600 series, like me, you’ll be able to get your hands on the 660Ti in August. With the amount of quality PC games hitting the market this year like Assassin’s Creed III and Darksiders II, it would be smart to upgrade to at least the 500 series if you’ve been holding out for the past few years.

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 670Ti Specs Leaked

    Nvidia made quite a splash last month with the launch of its new GTX 600 series line with the GTX 680. It was an impressive card that added many new features to PC gaming including automatic voltage control for a better gaming experience. The 680 was just one card out of many though and we’re still waiting for details on the other cards in the series. Good news then that some details were leaked today.

    WCCFTech got the skinny on the specs for the GTX 670Ti, the next card in the 600 series to hit. It will be launching in May and is meant to replace the GTX 580/570. It’s also pegged as being the main competitor to ATI’s Radeon HD 7950.

    Here’s the leaked specs in full. Check them out and tell us what you think:

    Based on the Nvidia GK104 (3.54 billion transistors on 294mm ² 28mn chip area)
    DirectX 11.1, Kepler architecture
    4 Raster Engines (GPC)
    7 shader clusters (SMX)
    1344 (1D) shader units
    112 texture units (TMUs)
    32 raster operation units (ROPs)
    256-bit DDR memory interface
    2 GB of GDDR5 memory configuration
    Chip clock: 900 MHz or something more
    Memory clock: unknown, assumed ~ 2500 MHz
    PCI Express 3.0 (backwards compatible with PCI Express 1.x and 2.0)
    Estimated TDP ~ 160 watts
    Performance target by nVidia: GeForce GTX 580 – Radeon HD 7950
    Launch Date : May
    Price: £320 ($500)

    The regular GTX 670 is also set to launch sometime soon. It’s price is rumored to be anywhere between £320 and £240 ($500 and $380). The lower price means that the regular 670 would have lower clocks or a 192-bit DDR memory interface compared to the 670Ti’s 256-bit.

    Either way, these are going to be the more affordable options to the current GTX 680. You’re still better off waiting, however, as they are probably going to sell out as soon as they are released, just like the 680.

    Nvidia still has two cards up their sleeves if you’re still adamant about waiting for an upgrade. WCCFTech says that Nvidia should be launching the mid-range GTX 660 and the Dual GK104 GTX 690 sometime in Q2 of this year.