Value and Conclusion

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 SLI is an amazing pixel-crunching solution. Priced at around $800, or 20% cheaper than NVIDIA's Kepler flagship GeForce GTX 690, the solution is found to be just 2% slower. Since the GTX 690 performs near-identical to GTX 680 SLI, the inference carries on: it's just 2% slower while being 20% cheaper. As a result, the two other costlier solutions are smoked in the price/performance equation.

Even for some its earliest drivers, GeForce GTX 670 SLI provides near-linear performance upscaling over single GTX 670. With a power draw of just 28W in idle, and 250W average load, the GTX 670 SLI, for the first time, makes a dual-GPU flagship card look silly, in terms of performance/Watt. Even an efficient 600W PSU should handle the GTX 670 SLI just fine. Gaming at 2560x1600 is smooth on the GTX 670 SLI, and importantly, a large majority of the games in our test-suite are playable at 5760x1080 (3D Vision Surround 3x 1080p). All said and done, the GeForce GTX 670 SLI is an unbelievably good graphics platform. NVIDIA will face a different kind of problem now: that of being able to sell GTX 690 for all its premium mojo, and GTX 680 by the numbers.