NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Card Review w/ MSI and EVGA

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the worlds most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

We ran 3DMark11 with both the performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Running our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660’s on the Futuremark 3DMark 11 performance preset, there is very little difference between the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC and the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC. The EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC took the lead with an overall score of 7113 3DMarks, the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC was less than 1% behind with an overall score of 7048 3DMarks.

3DMark11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

The extreme setting had similar performance results with EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC scoring 2335 and the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC scoring 2321 3DMarks.