Nvidia"s GeForce GTX 680 may have swiped the performance crown away from AMD"s Radeon HD 7970 earlier this year, but at $500, the initial Kepler offering was inaccessible to most system builders. That situation improved slightly in May with the GTX 670, a popular choice among enthusiasts for delivering an incredible value. In our testing, it provided GTX 680-like performance at a $100 discount.
Although nothing matched the GTX 670"s price-to-performance ratio, the $400 entry fee remained a steep one. Gamers who wanted to spend less were left with the $230 HD 7850, the $300 HD 7870 or a card from Nvidia"s last-gen lineup. Naturally, it would only be a matter of time before Nvidia tried to fill this gap with tons of hearsay about a GeForce GTX 660 Ti in the pipeline for a mid to late summer launch.
Well, we"re here and the rumors proved true: Nvidia"s new GeForce GTX 660 Ti has its crosshairs set on the HD 7870. Assuming it"s priced competitively, the GTX 660 Ti seems like it could put a real hurting on AMD"s offering, as it features the same DNA as existing Kepler products and boasts the same number of CUDA cores and texture units as the GTX 670.
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