MSI GTX 660 testing

TheGoat Eater

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MSI GTX 660 testing

*so far I was testing the card with a review driver since Nvidia just released 306.23 today, which is meant to include the 660. The driver I was using seemed to have issues in older versions of DirectX ( 9 and below - as well as some shakiness in 10 ), For this reason I am retesting with the version that released today and will be updating this as I go along.*

For the current post I will post some pictures while I get some results re-ran instead of posting up pre-release driver tests.

The unit I have is an OC variant, with Afterburner I am able to get the card to its max for Unigine Heaven (DX11) and 3DMark11 @ a base/boost clock of 1118/1183 (MHz) and a memory clock to 1757MHz - this is over the stock 1033/1098 core and 1502 on mem. During the benchmarks that I was able to run with the pre-release driver I found it was happy chugging along at 1200MHz (a few ticks under1200 up to 1228 depending on the part of the scene)



Specs:

Product Name: N660 TF 2GD5(/OC)
Model: V287
GPU Codename: GK106
CUDA Cores: 960
Core Base Clock: 980 MHz (OC: 1033 MHz)
Core Boost Clock: 1033 MHz (OC: 1098 MHz)
Memory Clock: 6008 MHz (OC: 6008 MHz)
Memory Size: 2GB GDDR5
Memory Bus: 192 bits
Outputs: DisplayPort / HDMI / DL-DVI-I / DL-DVI-D
TDP: <150 W
Card Dimension: 235x125.2x35.8 mm
Form Factor: ATX
DirectX: 11
OpenGL: 4.2
PCI Express: 3.0
CUDA: Yes
SLI: Yes ~ 2-way
PhysX: Yes
PureVideo HD: Yes
3DVision Surround: Yes, 3 outputs per card







To be updated soon - will be a as soon as I can do it :) (Very Tired with a long night of testing done and more to do asap ;) )














 
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Phynaz

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Could you tome down the fonts? I think my monitor blew up when I clicked on your link :)
 

RussianSensation

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Nice looking card. If you are going to run benchmarks, please test some games if you can. 3DMark11 is worthless for this generation of GPUs (or maybe overall). It continues to put GTX600 series in the lead but in real world games it's nowhere to be found. Even GTX680 has something like a ridiculous 50-60% lead over 580 in 3dMark11 scores but is only faster by 30-35% in actual games. I don't even look at 3dMark11 scores anymore. They make no sense.
 

TheGoat Eater

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Test Results
*tried to make it easy for everyone to load the images this time (thumbnails)*


I will be running many more tests - these are just the beginning :) - It does take a while to run each test a few times and do a lot of them for fine tuning card settings, edit them, make the posting easy to look at, and get rested for it again lol.


Stock @ 1033/1098MHz default base/boost 1502MHz memory

Max Overclocked Limits (stable) @ 1118/1183 default base /boost 1757MHz memory
Specifics: core voltage +100mV / power limit @ 110% / GPU Core offset @ +85MHz / memory offset @ +510MHz w/ auto fan


3DMark11 Entry @ Stock
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1905/e10331.jpg

3DMark11 Entry @ Overclocked Limit
http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/2496/oce10912.jpg

3DMark11 Performance @ Stock


3DMark11 Performance @ Overclocked Limit


3DMark11 Extreme @ Stock


3DMark11 Extreme @ Overclocked Limit





Unigine Heaven

Basic DX9 @ Stock
http://img404.imageshack.us/i/b3381531.jpg/

Basic DX9 @ Overclocked Limit
http://img685.imageshack.us/i/ocb3729632.jpg/

Extreme DX11 @ Stock


Extreme DX11 @ Overclocked Limit



Moar tests on the way :)