Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti: Officially released

Posted on 16 August 2012

As expected for a few weeks now, Nvidia has officially launched its graphics card GeForce GTX 660 Ti 660 Ti, a graphics card that is based on the core GK 104, which is the same used in the GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670 and in the DualGPU GeForce GTX 690 version. The aim of Nvidia with the GTX 660 Ti is very clear, and that is to compete against the AMD Radeon HD 7950, which has been upgraded to cope with Nividia’s latest card.

We already knew that the day was expected on August 16 to release the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and so its now or never, as it has already been officially launched and as well several custom models by manufacturers, models that we spoke the other day.

With the launch of the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, Nvidia has put out a graphics card that offers good performance for under $350. Its aim is to address the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and of course the Radeon HD 7800 Series, so already Nvidia has a midrange/high card to compete, since so far it has launched high-end graphics-based Kepler architecture.

The graphics core is nothing new, it is the GK 104 which is present in the GTX 690, GTX 680 and GTX 670. It is expected that with the future releases of the GTX 600 series, it will include graphics cores GK 106 and GK 107. Its specifications we’ve known for some time, the GTX 660 Ti will features 1344 CUDA cores, 112 TMUs, 24 ROPs and 2GB of GDDR5 memory interface based on 192Bits.

Prices for GeForce GTX 660 Ti, both in its reference and custom, will range from $299 to $349. As always, we leave you with the first official reviews of its performance, to spend lots of fun reading. We will be updating the list as we see some evidence of further analysis.