Review: ASUS GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II Top
Published by Christian Ney on 13.09.12Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| We don't know about the graphics cards from the other manufacturers as we don't have all of them on hand but we have to say that this one from ASUS is a strong one, almost perfect. We mean that thanks to the factory overclocking of no less than +104 MHz it gives the DirectCU II Top a nice boost in performance. Plus the card features an ASUSmade PCB design with a lot of cool features like more phases, a digital power design and so on. Everything cooled by the cooler I like the most named DirectCU II v2 that one we introduced in the specifications page. It is noiseless in 2D mode and impressively silent in 3D load just like it was on the GTX 670 DirectCU II Top, almost noiseless. |
- Noiseless in
2D
- Almost noiseless in load
3D
- PCB Design - Factory Overclocking +104 MHz |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Thanks to his high factory overclocking, the GTX 660 DirectCU II Top was on average 7 % faster than the reference GTX 660 in the games we tested. Just enough to reach the performance of the reference GTX 660 Ti thanks to factory overclocking on both GPU and memory. This also means that the DirectCU II Top version is as fast as the GTX 580 (faster by 1.6 % to be precise) under the games we tested here in average. And this performance has been achieved with a power consumption max of only 190 Watts for the whole setup measured under heavy 3D Load (FureMark) which is very energy efficeint according to the performance offered. Unfortunately things are less green under idle with a power consumption of 67 Watts while our setup with the EVGA sample was only drawing 60 Watts. |
- Performance - 7 % faster than the reference GTX 660 - As fast as the GTX 660 Ti / GTX 580 |
- Power consumption under idle | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| So in the end this GeForce GTX 660 DirectCU II Top graphics card from ASUS is faster, better, stronger than the reference GTX 660 and we recommend it to anyone who wants to invest money on a custom GTX 660. | - High-End Gaming - Overclocking | ||
| We gave the ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II Top the best five out of five stars. | |||
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