Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti OC Windforce Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell September 11, 2012 Featured Tech News, Graphics

Aliens V Predator has proved to be a big seller since the release and Sega have taken the franchise into new territory after taking it from Sierra. AVP is a Direct X 11 supported title and delivers not only advanced shadow rendering but high quality tessellation for the cards on test today.

To test the cards we used a 1080p resolution with DX11, Texture Quality Very High, MSAA Samples 1, 16 af, ambient occulsion on, shadow complexity high, motion blur on. We use this with most of our graphics card testing so results are comparable throughout reviews.

A demanding Direct X 11 game and one that demands a lot of power from the partnering hardware. In our system the Gigabyte GTX 660 Ti OC Windforce averages 84 frames per second, which is almost identical to the Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X Edition.

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7 comments

Joseph
September 11, 2012 at 10:56 am

delicious. well worth the money. AMD must be worrying at this price…..
Eran
September 11, 2012 at 10:57 am

Im waiting for 660, it should be under £200 and hopefully much better value, like the 460/560.
Darth Digglers
September 11, 2012 at 11:03 am

Thats a really good price. they were close to £300 when I saw the overclocked models, last time. wonder if they will drop to £230 before christmas.
Harris
September 11, 2012 at 11:05 am

I hear these cards aren’t selling well. I think the price is still too high for gamers in general.
Vincent
September 23, 2012 at 11:32 am

I own this card and I have OCed it a little higher than the displayed “Maximum” OC’s. I’ve managed to get a very stable 130MHz core and 140MHz memory boost from the stock clocks. (Using MSI Afterburner)
Zardon
September 23, 2012 at 11:38 am

Hi Vincent, nice one. You got a good card 🙂