More GeForce GTX 660/Ti details leak

The specifications for Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce GTX 660 cards are getting clearer by the day and now the non Ti version has also made an appearance. Since last week, additional details of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti has turned up and it looks like the initial specs were slightly off and sadly not in a good way. That said, the initial specs looked too good to be true and what we’re looking at now seems to be much more in line with what we’d expect from Nvidia.

So what can we expect from Nvidia’s two new GeForce 600-series cards?Well, the good news is that the performance should still be decent and the pricing might be even better than we first though. The bad news is that the GeForce GTX 660 Ti appears to now have 1152 CUDA cores/shaders, rather than the previous count of 1344, but on the upside, at least if you’re on a tighter budget, the non Ti version will have the same core count. The TMU (Texture Mapping Unit) count is also down from 112 for the GeForce GTX 670, to 96 for both of the GeForce GTX 660 cards.

The ROP (Render Output Unit) count stays the same as on the GeForce GTX 670 for the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, but the non Ti version loses eight ROPs for a total of 24. On the upside it appears as if the GeForce GTX 660 Ti might have the full 256-bit memory bandwidth, whereas the GTX 660 is the one with a 192-bit memory bus. This makes sense when you look at the memory count as well, as the GeForce GTX 660 Ti will come with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, whereas the GeForce GTX 660 will have to make do with 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory.

The GTX 660 Ti is expected to have a TDP of around 150W with the GTX 660 coming in a bit lower at 130W. We’ll leave clock speeds out of it for now, as the numbers are still all over the place, but the source suggests that the GTX 660’s cards will be clocked a fair bit faster than the GTX 670 when it comes to base and boost clock.

In related news, Dell and Acer is apparently already shipping machines with the GeForce GTX 660 GPU, but this appears to be OEM cards, as they only have 1GB of memory and it could technically be anything, as Nvidia is quite generous when it comes to what its OEM partners can call the cards in their systems.

For now, we’re just going to have to wait for the official word from Nvidia which isn’t expected for a little over two weeks as yet. That said, it looks like we can expect the GeForce GTX 660 Ti for closer to the $300 than the $350 mark and the GTX 660 should most definitely be a sub $300 card and might even be as cheap as $250 depending on Nvidia’s positioning of the two cards. Hopefully we’ll see full support in OS X for both cards, as they should at least in theory be very similar to the GTX 670.

Source: Videocardz

huh, that's too bad.
I was really eyeing this card. Have to wait for the benchmarks to see how it plays out.

coelo said:

huh, that's too bad.
I was really eyeing this card. Have to wait for the benchmarks to see how it plays out.

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Some of the information is false the 660ti has 1344 CUDA cores and has a 192width bus but still has 2gb GDDR5 ram the memory clock is the same as the 670/680 but the core runs at 915mhz, this is according to tweaktown who have received a card from one of the partners early
link to the article : http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/48...i_2gb_reference_video_card_review/index1.html

Except I wrote about those specs last week http://www.tonymacx86.com/82-supposed-nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-ti-specs-leak.html
It's possible that we'll see a wide range of cards and as most of it is still mostly rumours, so we'll have to wait and see what actually launches.

noname98 said:

Some of the information is false the 660ti has 1344 CUDA cores and has a 192width bus but still has 2gb GDDR5 ram the memory clock is the same as the 670/680 but the core runs at 915mhz, this is according to tweaktown who have received a card from one of the partners early
link to the article : http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/48...i_2gb_reference_video_card_review/index1.html

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Could we anticipate a drop in price for GTX 560 Ti's when these come out?

Would the cards be supported? Or of a newer generation?