no gtx 660 till august?

tamzzy · 27 Jun 2012 at 18:07

wut? you guys seen this?

nooooooo...

MeddlE · 27 Jun 2012 at 20:01

Well that gives a large indicator of where the 660 will be performing at least. Direct competitor for Radeon 7850 should see interesting pricing.

jeff6475 · 27 Jun 2012 at 20:58

need to drop the 570 prices and get them shifted

kharma45 · 27 Jun 2012 at 21:23

So glad I didn't bother trying to wait for it a few months back and went for the 7850.

Laher · 27 Jun 2012 at 21:28

This sucks, I wanted to go nvidia + 3d vision for my next upgrade :| Gonna have to wait now or get the 7850.

Darujhistan · 28 Jun 2012 at 11:21

kharma45 said:
So glad I didn't bother trying to wait for it a few months back and went for the 7850.

They're cracking cards all-round.

IRLeetly · 28 Jun 2012 at 11:25

Dang it, so another couple of months to wait to see if there are price drops within my budget.

easyrider · 1 Jul 2012 at 21:42

Any news on the GTX 660?

Looking at getting a new card very soon

tamzzy · 1 Jul 2012 at 22:23

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18417676

littlepuppy · 1 Jul 2012 at 22:51

easyrider said:
Looking at getting a new card very soon

Lets hope you like the pricing

easyrider · 2 Jul 2012 at 00:46

august then? Need a card foe the winter months don't game in summer really...

KraniX · 2 Jul 2012 at 11:53

littlepuppy said:
Lets hope you like the pricing

What are you thinking they will cost? I'd predict around the £250 mark going on the current over-inflated gfx card market.

tamzzy · 2 Jul 2012 at 12:00

250 for the gtx660? unlikely to be that high if they're gonna enter the 7850's market segment. im guessing 180-190ish

hyperst · 2 Jul 2012 at 12:00

So will a gtx660 out perform a 570/580?

If not, surely it would be wiser to buy the latter.#

According to http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/549?vs=518
570 is still better than a 7850 if these 660 are targeted at the 7850 market I don't see the point.

KraniX · 2 Jul 2012 at 12:06

See what you mean, maybe £250 too high but I doubt you'll get anything much below £200 as the standard 560 Ti is around the £160-£170 mark and the 448 560 Ti's are still right up there on price with the 570's, eventually Nvidia is going to have to discount some of this stuff to get rid.

TrojanWhore · 19 Jul 2012 at 11:38

news for anyone waiting for the 660gtx

firstly, apologies if someone has beaten me to it, but just found this:

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jules/gtx660-launch-date-confirmed-16th-august/

News into KitGuru from a friendly engineer in sunny California, is that 16th August will see the new cards launched.

Palit and other major nVidia partners have bought up the last of the 570 GPUs and flushed them into the market at bargain prices, leaving the way clear for the GTX660 to rock Q4. Our sources in Taiwan told us that this was a crucial part of the strategy, because a well priced GTX570 would make the GTX660 look bad.

HeX · 19 Jul 2012 at 11:58

Late to the party tbh. Pretty much everyone wanting a mid range part has bought a 7850 now...

subbytna · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:28

Agreed, the 660 is too little too late now

psychodil · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:34

Well it all depends on the price/performance bracket it comes in, could still be a good value card.

I'm not too hopeful though, most sources are suggesting a gk104 chip with the same number of smx units as a gtx 670, but with a 192-bit memory bus and 1.5gb of ram, probably a lower clockspeed too. Also I don't think nvidia are going to be giving these away, they will be 296mm^2 chips competing with amd's 212mm^2 chips.

Shayper · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:54

Perfect timing for me at least