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Toms Hardware Seven GeForce GTX 660 Ti Cards Exploring Memory Bandwidth

Toms Hardware Seven GeForce GTX 660 Ti Cards Exploring Memory Bandwidth Image source: Toms Hardware Toms Hardware posted a pretty interesting article looking at the recently-released GTX 660 Ti. Specifically, the article takes a look at seven cards from various manufacturers and examines the impact of the 660 Tis 192-bit memory bus on gaming performance when anti-aliasing is cranked up. One feature of the article that I thought was cool was their noise comparison amongst the cards; seems like Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI are still among the best options. I still dont know what to think of the 660 Ti. The card seems like a dud at the $300 price point now that you can find HD 7950s in the $290-300 range after rebate. Present performance aside, the 7950s 3GB of VRAM and 384-bit memory bus are going to have a lot more staying power than the 660 Tis 2GB and 192-bit bus. If youre planning on upgrading your GPU every 12 months or so that might not matter, but for someone on a budget the prospect o...