ZOTAC GTX660 Ti AMP! Edition Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅16-08-12
Conclusion

Clearly, the GTX660Ti is a very good card. It cut through all of our benchmarks with ease at 1920x1080 resolutions. It even performed better than expected at 2560x1600 but as with most mid-range cards this resolution sometimes proves too much for the card to adequately handle at playable framerates - at least enjoyable ones! The GTX660Ti managed to often surpass not only it's direct competitor, the AMD HD7870 but also the HD7950 too which is no easy task. The GTX660Ti, like the more powerful GTX670 and GTX680s begins to falter as the resolutions and filters are increased with the lead diminishing or even vanishing completely. To be fair to NVIDIA, they are aiming the card to perform at today's most popular resolution of 1920x1080 and it does this very well indeed.

The ZOTAC card we had on review today was very quiet thanks to the double fans and copper heatpiped heatsink which kept temperatures (even when overclocked) under control. It wasn't totally quiet though and as with most phonic testing, sound/volume is subjective but I would claim you would struggle to hear it under load above moderate speed case fans.



My only concern is the price. At £265 the GTX660Ti isn't far from the superior GTX670 and again, quite closely priced to AMD's HD7950. While the GTX660Ti can hold its own against the HD7950 at 1920x1080 resolutions, the extra GB of RAM and faster memory controller on the AMD card may prove to be the better buy for those running at higher resolutions. NVIDIA pitch the GTX660Ti against the HD7870 though, and as we have shown, the GTX660Ti is the faster card by a fair margin so it is 'job done' in that respect.

Overall then, it is hard to fault the GTX660Ti. Unless you are looking to pair the card with a 30" monitor it is unlikely you will struggle in any of today's games and if you crave even more power in the future then NVIDIA have added tri/quad SLI (motherboard dependent) support. With this in mind, I have no hesitations of awarding the ZOTAC GTX660Ti our Silver award - taking into consideration the price/performance ratio you will be hard pushed to find a faster graphics card at this price point for today's most popular resolution.

Pros:
- Kepler Architecture
- Factory Overclocked
- Quiet
- Comparatively cool
- Free Borderlands 2 game

Cons:
- Begins to struggle at the highest resolutions
- Cost


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