[Official] NVIDIA GTX 660TI Owners club - Page 166

Performance Summary

As expected, Crysis 3 is demanding on hardware, but that is ok. We want a game that pushes graphics forward on the PC and creates a need to build and buy faster GPUs. This game is quite intense at 2560x1600, with no single-GPU video card tested today able to play it at the highest in-game settings at 2560x1600. The GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition were not able to give us that level of gameplay experience. This is good, this means we have room for next generation video cards to deliver to us a maximized experience at 2560x1600.

For now, it will take SLI or CrossFire to be able to play at 2560x1600 with very high settings and AA. If you wish to play Crysis 3 at 2560x1600 on a single-GPU, you will have to lower in-game settings. We found that you not only have to drop to high settings, but also lower shadows and post-processing to medium in the process.

Crysis 3 plays a lot better at 1080p resolution, 1920x1080. At 1080p the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition are able to push the graphics to very high and play with the best experience possible in the game. Granted, we have to use SMAA Medium in order to achieve this. It will most likely take next generation single-GPU video cards to allow us to play at SMAA High 4X at very high at 1080p. Still, if you have one of the best high-end cards right now, you can have a great 1080p experience in this game and get the most out of it visually.

The GeForce GTX 670 was also a good card at 1080p and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti impressed us with its performance. We thought the GTX 660 Ti would be bottlenecked, but it performed well. We were able to play at 1080p, with SMAA Medium, though we had to customize some settings by lowering these. What was really disappointing was the Radeon HD 7950 Boost and Radeon HD 7 870 GHz Edition performance. At 1080p we really had to lower in-game settings in order to get playable performance. It could be driver immaturity, but whatever it is, those video cards suffered the most.

Overall, if you want the best midrange video card performance, look toward the GeForce GTX 660 Ti or GTX 670 for this game at 1080p.

Originally Posted by skyline_king88 

hey guys i am wondering if i can get help to unlock vcore?

Originally Posted by GeforceGTS 

Check out this thread - http://www.overclock.net/t/1289489/gtx-600-series-unlocked-voltage-bios-downloads-and-tools

and this post for KBT with a rough translation - http://www.overclock.net/t/1289489/gtx-600-series-unlocked-voltage-bios-downloads-and-tools/4030#post_19522219

or here for KGB - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?284014-KGB-Kepler-BIOS-Editor-Unlocker

or you could just upload your bios and someone here will do it for you

EDIT: Ah tong beat me, I'm slow today ;x

Originally Posted by Tong 

Interesting! This is probably because, the higher your resolution is, the more the GPU is used. Lowers resolutions hinders GPU potential.

However, it could be an engine glitch/limitation. Something similar also happens in Bulletstorm, it can only run well on 16:9 aspects since 16:10 capped performance.

Originally Posted by Mephic 

I just noticed something weird - I set my power limit to maximum which is 114% in my case but each time card goes to 100% or higher (happened only with full usage in far cry 3) it throttles down - is it an evga precision bug?