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August 28th, 2012

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650 Coming Next Week

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Hermitage Akihabara confirms a release date of both missing mid-range cards from GeForce 600 Series.

UPDATE: GeForce GTX 660 will be using a GK106 GPU.

Original story: According to the site, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650 will be released on September 6th, which was rumored a month ago. These two cards are probably the last two expected from current Kepler series. NVIDIA will fill the gap with another iteration of Kepler GK104 GPU and entry-level GK107. Last week NVIDIA added the specification of GeForce GTX 660 OEM, which will likely be the same for retail market.

While the GTX 650 will be rather a slow card, the GTX 660 might be an interesting addition to the whole line-up. The non-Ti version should target Radeon HD 7800 series performance segment. The fact that GeForce 650 received the GTX branding suggest that NVIDIA is currently not planning any GTS model, but if it does, it would be slower than GTX 650. On the other, it’s quite obvious that NVIDIA will prepare another variants of GTX 660 (SE, 128-bit, 960 cores etc), because there’s still no counterpart for Radeon HD 7700 series from NVIDIA and there’s a noticeable gap betwen these two cards — 384 to 1152 CUDA cores .

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 will feature 1GB of GDDR5 memory (GT 640 has GDDR3), which will be clocked at 5GHz (128-bit bus). This card will not have a boost clock, while the base clock is reported at 1058 MHz.

It’s still not clear how much will those cards cost, but the GTX 650 could cost around $150, while GTX 660 $220.

GeForce 600 SeriesGPUCUDA CoresMemoryMemory InterfaceLaunch Price
GeForce GT 640GK1073841GB GDDR3128-bit$99
GeForce GTX 650GK1073841GB GDDR5128-bit$130 – 150
GeForce GTX 660GK10411521.5 GB GDDR5192-bit$230 – 250
GeForce GTX 660 TiGK10413442GB GDDR5192-bit$300
GeForce GTX 670GK10413442GB GDDR5256-bit$400
GeForce GTX 680GK10415352GB GDDR5256-bit$500
GeForce GTX 6902xGK10430724GB GDDR5512-bit$1000
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  • http://twitter.com/deeree2009 Dee

    I was hoping the GTX 660 would be closer to $200. Moderator, have you heard of any news regarding NVIDIA doing price cuts for their existing cards ?

  • JoBro

    I guess the GK106 is a scratch. The GTX 650 is a complete waste (based on the weak performance of the GT 640) at $150. The HD 7770 will cream it performance-wise and can already be found for under $150. And $150 for the HD7770 is also too high with HD 6850 and GTX 460/560SE still on the market at below this price range. If AMD makes the wise decision to lower the HD7770 to $120 and HD7850 to $170-180, they will eat Nvidia’s lunch in performance main mainstream segment.

  • AMD >< NVIDIA

    The GTX 660 will be awesome, with only 1 6-pin connector and perform between 7850 and 7870. :)

  • BestJinjo

    What country are you in? Although including rebates, I can already find HD7770 for $110-120 and HD7850 for $185-190 already in the US/Canada.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150598
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150617

  • http://videocardz.com/ VideoCardz.com

    NVIDIA doing price cuts? Yeah they do, when they are releasing a next generation :)

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  • skr13

    VideoCardz.com, a PM system will be great in this site, i have a subject to show you, but not in public.

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    Use the email then videocardz@gmail.com
    When I will set up the forums there will be a PM system.

  • not a loyal fanboy

    I can’t wait much longer … 7850 is too tempting in pricing even though 660 kepler cards get more framerate in battlefield 3 and cryengine3 games

  • BestJinjo

    HD7870 HIS IceQ is going for $220 on Newegg with Sleeping Dogs. Smashing value since this card is just 10% slower or so than a $300 GTX660Ti/stock 7950.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161404

  • SAMY

    The first picture of an actual clear for GK106 !
    http://www.arabpcworld.com/?p=18215

  • SAMY

    OK..I WILL DO

  • skr13

    Im thinking about GB 7870 WF3, 1100MHZ 230 EUR.
    But in the other hand, i can find GB 7950 900MHZ for 292 EUR.
    Or MSI 660 TI 1019MHZ for 285 EUR?
    I don’t pretend to OC any of them further than factory clocks.
    What´s best deal?

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  • BestJinjo

    If you play BF3 mainly, GTX660Ti is faster than a stock 900mhz 7950. If you play other games, even Crysis 2, HD7950 900mhz will be just as fast. Even if you don’t overclock now, you will have that option available later while 660Ti doesn’t really scale that well with overclocking. Also, if you play Skyrim with mods, 7950 900mhz will be faster.

    At the same time, wait for GTX660 to drop and maybe it will put additional price pressure on the 7870 to get it closer to 200 Euro. Between the 660Ti and 7950, I would take the 7950 myself but since you have had bad luck with AMD drivers, 660Ti is a safer choice for you I think. Just wait to see how 660 performs and if it shakes the market. Its launch is next week!