NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 670
NVIDIA announced today their release of the GeForce GTX 670 card, based off of the 28nm Kepler architecture that the already-announced GTX 680 and GTX 690 are based off of. There wasn’t much doubt that it was going to be released, but the big question was when they’d release it. The lineup leak I posted about months ago had the GTX 670 coming out this month, but no specific release date was leaked.
According to GeForce.com’s benchmarks, the GTX 670 outperforms the GTX 570 by quite a bit. According to the press release, it beats AMD’s “much higher-priced flagship product on 25 of the world’s most popular games and benchmarks,” although they offered no specifics. Specs wise, here’s the run-down of the GTX 670 compared to the GTX 680 and GTX 690 taken from GeForce.com’s announcement:
| Specifications | GeForce GTX 690 | GeForce GTX 680 | GeFroce GTX 670 |
| CUDA Cores | 3072 | 1536 | 1344 |
| Base Clock | 915 MHz | 1006 MHz | 915 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1019 MHz | 1058 MHz | 980 MHz |
| Memory Configuration | 4GB | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Speed | 6.0 GB/s | 6.0 GB/s | 6.0 GB/s |
| Memory Bandwidth | 386 GB/s | 192 GB/x | 192 GB/x |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8pin | 2x 6pin | 2x 6pin |
| Outputs | 2X DL-DVI-I 1x DL-DVI-D Mini-DP | 1x DL-DVI-I 1x DL-DVI-D 1x HDMI Mini-DP | 1x DL-DVI-I 1x DL-DVI-D 1x HDMI Mini-DP |
| TDP | 300W | 195W | 170W |
| Price | $999 | $499 | $399 |
The GeForce GTX 670 is available today, if you can find it in stock, and includes cards from these brands: ASL, ASUS, Colorful, ECS, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, Jetway, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY, Sparkle, and Zotac. If you want to read more about it, you can read GeForce.com’s post with game performance graphs here, and you can read the official announcement here.