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 GeForce GTX 660 Direct CU II OC Edition
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Release Period- Sep-2012
GeForce GTX 660 Direct CU II OC Edition Review
GeForce GTX 660 Direct CU II OC Edition is a special edition of GeForce GTX 660.
The new features include DirectCU II cooling solution which, according to Asus, is 20% more effective than the standard/reference cooler.
In terms of overclocking, the base-clock was increased from 980MHz to 1020MHz and the boost clock can now reach 1085MHz, instead of 1033MHz. The memory clock was left untouched.
Benchmarks indicate a 4% performance boost when compared to the reference card.
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GeForce GTX 660 Direct CU II OC Edition Performance Specification
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1020 MHz
Kepler GK106
2048 MB
1502 MHz
192 Bit
GDDR5
144.2GB/sec
28nm
80
81.6 GTexel/s
24
24.48 GPixel/s
960
DX 11.1
5.0
4.3
2560x1600
Notebook GPU
SLI/Crossfire
Dedicated
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2
1
Core i5-3470 Quad 3.2GHz
8 GB
1920 x 1080
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