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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Card Review w/ MSI and EVGA

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 660
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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3DMark 11

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Settings

We ran 3DMark11 with both the performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

Running our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660's on the Futuremark 3DMark 11 performance preset, there is very little difference between the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC and the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC. The EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC took the lead with an overall score of 7113 3DMarks, the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC was less than 1% behind with an overall score of 7048 3DMarks.

3DMark11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

The extreme setting had similar performance results with EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC scoring 2335 and the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC scoring 2321 3DMarks.

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Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings Kepler To The Sweet Spot
Page 2 - EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SuperClocked
Page 3 - MSI GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 6 - Battlefield 3
Page 7 - Dirt: Showdown
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 13 - Overclocking The GeForce GTX 660
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions