Review: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

by Tarinder Sandhu on 10 May 2012, 13:59 4.5

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Final thoughts and rating

The introduction of NVIDIA's third desktop-based Kepler GPU, GeForce GTX 670, brings the firm's latest architecture goodness to a slightly lower price point. Set to retail from £330 and with performance just a few per cent shy of the £400-plus GTX 680, this latest GPU shakes up the high-end graphics market.

GTX 670 cards simply harness GPUs that don't quite make the 'gold' grade mandated by GTX 680. Clocked in a little lower and with a slight reduction in architecture, high-resolution gaming performance remains very good. Indeed, given what we've observed in our benchmarks, partner-overclocked GTX 670s are sure to pose a significant, immediate threat to the vanilla GTX 680 boards: we'll leave NVIDIA and its cohort of partners to sort out this particular positioning headache.

But more than give NVIDIA another foothold in the premium GPU market, GTX 670's arrival forces arch-rival AMD's hand. The red team has already wielded the financial axe on Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 cards, now available for £350 and £300, respectively, down by almost £100 apiece from just four months ago, and GTX 670 is as much about eroding AMD's profit margin as it is about giving the enthusiast more choice.

With the rather large proviso that NVIDIA's partners keep to the £330 pricing quoted in this editorial, the GeForce GTX 670 becomes our favourite high-end card, supplanting both the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970, even at its much-reduced price. We sang the GTX 680's praises six weeks ago; we now wonder if some fulsome recommendation was premature, as the GTX 670 is, for most, a better bet, tantalisingly so if this new GPUs can be BIOS-flashed to the GTX 680's specifications.

The Good

Almost as good as a GTX 680
Reference card is markedly cheaper than GTX 680
Carries all the Kepler goodness
Forces the price down of competitive AMD GPUs

The Bad

Architecture/die size suggests this should be a £200-£250 card

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7870 upwards has just been Conroe'd.
Nice looking card - it seems many people wasted money on their GTX680 cards though.
Was hoping for a little bit cheaper but i'll still be getting one with my new build at the end of the month :D

Nice review!
Good, but maybe too pricey - GTX 470 and 570 were about 100 quid less.
Still a bit pricey in absolute terms, but when compared with other cards it's pretty good in relative price.

Seems nvidia have done it again with the GTX670. I don't understand why they don't make the cooler shorter though, they could make it 6.5" by the looks of things and then it'd be the best SFF graphics card!