Zotac GTX660Ti AMP! Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 16th August 2012 | Source: Zotac | Price: £269.99 |
Introduction
The second of our two-for-one GTX660Ti reviews is the Zotac AMP! edition.
Regular readers will know that the AMP! Editions usually come with a good factory overclock and Zotac's custom cooler, and the GTX660Ti AMP! Edition is no exception.
If you've come straight here and skipped the Windforce review then it's worth pointing out that because of the identical GPU clocks we're just seeing how the Zotac performs when overclocked. The 'out of the box' results were so similar between the two cards that it is pointless to clutter up the graphs with repeated results.
So enough preamble, does the Zotac manage to make better use of the overclock than the Gigabyte did?
Technical Specifications
Despite being a very different brand with a different cooler, the Zotac AMP! has an identical clockspeed to the Windforce, both on the Base clock and the Boost clock.
However, Zotac have greatly increased the Memory clockspeed, up from 6008 MHz effective to 6608 MHz effective. Hopefully this extra boost will overcome some of the limitations of the GTX660Ti we've seen thus far.
| Graphics Clusters | 4 |
| SMXs | 7 |
| CUDA Cores | 1344 |
| Texture Units | 112 |
| ROPs | 24 |
| Base Clock | 1033 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1111 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 6608 MHz |
| L2 Size | 384KB |
| Total Memory | 2048MB GDDR5 |
| Memory Interface | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 144.2GB/s |
| Fabrication Process | 28nm |
| Transistor Count | 3.54 Billion |
| Connectors | 2 Dual-Link DVI 1 HDMI 1 DisplayPort |
| Form Factor | Dual Slot |
| Power Input | 2x 6-pin PCIe |
| TDP | 150W |
| Thermal Limit | 98°C |
Most Recent Comments
7970=680>670>7950>660ti>7870>7850
^^ IMOH
Also price difference between the 660ti and 670 is next to nothing, no reason not to save a few extra £ up and go for the 670 or save some money and grab a 7950.
You also didn't say what tesselation? disabled/normal/extreme ?
OC 7950 smokes the OC 7970? wtf?
I bought a GTX570 and it cost £240 then, it still costs £220 now!
The GTX670 came in upwards of £350 and they are still over £300.
The sweet spot for these cards I believe is around £250 at launch.
Then a little while later, when prices begin to fall, the special editions come around and they can charge a bit more.
You mentioned the importance of aesthetics in your review Tom. On that note I would bring your attention to your graphs. I find them difficult to use. I'd like to see the reviewed card in a different colour to make it stand out and maybe group the cards according to type and have the best at the top. And yes I have to agree, some of the results did seem a bit odd, the reference GTX670 in BF3 beating the MSI for example.
That aside, a very good and Prof review as always.
Keep up the good work.
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Originally Posted by Kyle
should i get this one or the EVGA one?
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Which EVGA one? normal Ti, Ti SC or Ti FTW?
I must say the orange fans on this ones do look good.
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The second of our reviews of the new GTX660Ti is courtesy of Zotac, and their AMP! model.
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