While the arena still waits for the GTX 680 to arrive Newegg, NVIDIA has pushed ahead with the following card down in its stack: the $399 GTX 670. This cheaper option keeps many of the main Kepler credentials intact, however it necessarily makes a number of compromises at the computational side, with fewer processing cores (1344 as opposed to 1536) and texture units (112 in preference to 128) in addition to slower base clock speed (915MHz rather than 1006MHz). Is that more likely to be an issue? Judging from reviewers' responses published today, which cover cards from a number vendors, not really. As a matter of fact, as TechSpot puts it, "there's little or no to critique," as the GTX 670 matches the performance of AMD's flagship Radeon HD 7970 at a far cheaper price. AnandTech's benchmarks put the reference board only ten percent (or a handful of fps) behind the GTX 680 in lots of recent games, leaving it "nipping on the 7970's heels," nevertheless it was still plenty powerful enough to play Arkham City or Battlefield 3 at 5760 x 1200 with high settings. PCPer's stats put the brand new card 15 to twenty percent behind the 680, but found good scaling in SLI mode. The Tech Report found the the GTX 670's cheap stock cooler let it down slightly, with a "friction-filled" idle noise well above the tip-end Radeons or even above the twin-GPU GTX 690 -- but under load it conducted itself relatively well. Shall we go on, but ultimately if you are wanting to buy this card then you need to do your individual research on the links below, after which do a raindance.
Read - TechSpot
Read - AnandTech
Read - The Tech Report
Read - PC Per
Read - HotHardware
Read - Tom's Hardware
Read - Hexus
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