MSI GeForce GTX 660 HAWK 2 GB Review 9

MSI GeForce GTX 660 HAWK 2 GB Review

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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 was released just a month ago. It packs a total of 960 CUDA cores with 80 texture memory units (TMUs), 24 raster operations processors (ROPs), and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. As with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, NVIDIA set 2 GB as the standard memory amount for the GeForce GTX 660. A 192-bit wide memory interface, populated with six memory chips of the same 2 Gbit density, should, typically, result in a memory amount of 1.5 GB.



MSI's GeForce GTX 660 HAWK is a highly customized version of the Geforce GTX 660 and comes with several features for enthusiast overclockers like dual BIOS, with the second BIOS being optimized for liquid nitrogen use, and voltage measurements points for voltmods.

The GPU clock has been increased by over 100 MHz, which will provide a nice performance boost. Unfortunately, memory has remained at the default speed of 1500 MHz.

GeForce GTX 660 Market Segment Analysis
 Radeon
HD 6950
GeForce
GTX 570
Radeon
HD 6970
Radeon
HD 7850
GeForce
GTX 660
MSI GTX
660 HAWK
Radeon
HD 7870
GeForce
GTX 580
GeForce
GTX 660 Ti
Radeon
HD 7950
GeForce
GTX 670
Radeon
HD 7970
Shader Units14084801536102496096012805121344179213442048
ROPs324032322424324824323232
Graphics ProcessorCaymanGF110CaymanPitcairnGK106GK106PitcairnGF110GK104TahitiGK104Tahiti
Transistors2640M3000M2640M2800M2540M2540M2800M3000M3500M4310M3500M4310M
Memory Size2048 MB1280 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB2048 MB1536 MB2048 MB3072 MB2048 MB3072 MB
Memory Bus Width256 bit320 bit256 bit256 bit192 bit192 bit256 bit384 bit192 bit384 bit256 bit384 bit
Core Clock800 MHz732 MHz880 MHz860 MHz980 MHz+1085 MHz+1000 MHz772 MHz915 MHz+800 MHz915 MHz+925 MHz
Memory Clock1250 MHz950 MHz1375 MHz1200 MHz1502 MHz1502 MHz1200 MHz1002 MHz1502 MHz1250 MHz1502 MHz1375 MHz
Price$170$250$380$185$230$250$245$430$280$310$380$390
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