Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3x Review & BenchMarks
NVIDIA’s GTX 670 and GTX 680 were launched within a few weeks of one another and both have proven to be hugely popular. So much so, that trying to find either card at many retailers quickly devolves into a frustrating situation, particularly when it comes to non-reference versions. Regardless of this slightly odd situation, the show must go on and we’re forging ahead with yet another GTX 670 review.
According to details, the new Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 2X features custom design compact PCB that features Gigabyte Ultra Durable VGA features like 2-oz copper PCB, Japanese solid-state capacitors, ferrite core chokes, as well as Gigabyte's pretty good Windforce 2X cooler with two 8mm copper heatpipes and two 100mm fans. The PCB is in Gigabyte's trademark blue and features 4+2 phase VRM design and needs two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors.
The new Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 2X will hit retail/e-tail in two versions, reference clocked and OC Edition. The OC Edition is clocked at 941MHz for base and 1019MHz for boost GPU clock while 2GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 6008MHz. The base GPU clock on the OC Edition is a decent OC from reference 914MHz.
Considering its “OC” designation, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that
Gigabyte’s only GTX 670 uses higher clock speeds. The Base and Boost
clocks of this card aren’t anything spectacular and the memory hasn’t
been touched but that really shocked us was the maximum clocks the
WindForce OC reached without overclocking or additional tuning. 1210MHz
is far above what past GTX 670s have hit and actually one-ups our
reference GTX 680’s maximum observed speed.
Due to custom PCB and Windforce 2X cooler, new Gigabyte GTX 670
Windforce 2X cards are expected to retail at much lower price than the
Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3X ones.
Test Setup:
BenchMarks
- Great Performance, just running every thing very well.
- dominates AMD 6970 in game performance producing frame rates almost twice as fast and will be a perfect replacement.
- Cool and nice design and great fan performance.
- 2nd best GTX 670 after Zotac in all aspects.
- High cost of Gigabyte GTX 670 Windforce 3x make it and upper mid level card with respect to current price in market.
