NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 670 sales 10 May 2012 at a recommended price of $399. This is Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.0 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9.5" (24.1 cm). two 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 170 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 25.71 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 670's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

125

Perfomance to price

21.58

Architecture

Kepler

Code name

GK104

Type

Desktop

Release date

10 May 2012

Launch price (MSRP)

$399

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$474.99

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 670's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 670's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1344

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

CUDA cores

1344

Core clock speed

980 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

980 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

3,540 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

170 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Maximum GPU temperature

97 °C

Texture fill rate

102.5 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

2,459.5 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 670's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

9.5" (24.1 cm)

Height

4.376" (11.1 cm)

Supplementary power connectors

Two 6-pin

SLI options

3-way

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 670: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256-bit GDDR5

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

6.0 GB/s

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 670.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Display Connectors

One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 670. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray

3D Gaming

3D Vision

GPU Boost

CUDA

SLI

FXAA

TXAA

Adaptive VSync

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 670, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12.0

OpenGL

4.2

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 670. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

25.91

Unigine Heaven 4.0

962

Passmark

5371

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

7000

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 670. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

97 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

13 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 670 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

110.77 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

99.57 %

AMD Radeon RX 560

97.2 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

88.18 %

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 670 from AMD is Radeon RX 560, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 1 position in our rating.