PC has become the main platform for gaming for most of us and we prefer gaming on the PC than gaming consoles because PC games effects are now more close to reality and DX11 makes everything looks real. Nvidia has been dominating the GPU market from 6-8 months as AMD has not yet launch their 7000 series dual GPU card. Nvidia is also famous for its CUDA core graphics cards which helps the gaming performance as well as fast video transcoding so if you are using a video transcoding software which supports CUDA technology than Nvidia GPUs are more suitable for video transcoding than others. EVGA is the partner of Nvidia and they customize their GPUs by heat sink system and making the overclocking more stable etc. Today we are going to review the EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock graphics card.
We can adjust the speed manually and chose the automatic option for more convenience. People who always want their GPU to run at max speed will get the benefits for this technology as well who want to reduces power consumption. EVGA provides a utility software to overclock the card manually from windows which is EVGA Precision X Overclocking Utility. This tool can be used to squeeze additional performance from one or more video cards by tweaking GPU and memory clock speeds within defined ranges based on the product. Unlike previous versions of NVIDIA GeForce video cards, the 600-series contain specific overclock ranges that ensure software tools do not adjust outside of safe parameters. These parameters vary between products and are set by the hardware's firmware programming, so not all products of the same model will share the same available range of settings. EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock is factory overclocked so there is not much room to overclock it more and the performance is very good as well EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock has done well with Nvidia GTX 660 and make it more attractive both by design and performance.
Lets take a look at BenchMarks results….
The EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock is a very great GPU which continues the legacy of Nvidia GT 8800 and no doubt, it is the best graphics card with respect to performance and price as well. EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock is pre-overclocked but still has some room for overclocking as well. The EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock has 2 GB DDR3 memory and much CUDA core for best performance with 192 bit interface. The Nvidia’s 28nm kepler GK 106 proved to be a best not only by performance but also for power consumption and heat perspective. EVGA GTX 660 Super Clock is no doubt best GPU in under $230 price which also supports 3D vision on 3 displays at a time.
- Latest Nvidia Kepler 28nm GK 106 GPU.
- Nice performance.
- Power and clock speed adjustment.
- Factory overclocked.
- CUDA cores.
- 3 years warranty.
- Nvidia GPU boost.
- A little bit more surface temperature than expected on card’s outer surface.
- No 3 way SLI support.