Inno3D's is preparing a GeForce GTX 660 which utilizes the Herculez 2000XT cooling design, the same card has beenacquiredby a member on Bit-Tech forums and benchmarked it at both stock and overclocked frequencies.

The graphic card features the GK106 core which packs 960 cores and a 2GB GDDR5 (192-bit) memory. Clocks are maintained at 980MHz/1033MHz for core and 6008MHz for memory. The card requires a single 6-Pin connector for power and display outputs include Dual-DVI, HDMI and Display port.

The user did a brief review of the card by benchmarking it on stock and overclocked frequencies. The frequencies he used for overclocking were 1080/1133MHz core and 1770MHz for the memory which resulted in bandwidth increase of 170GB/s from the reference 144GB/s. Furthermore, the card was compared against the GTX560Ti.

Results can be seen below:

Stock Settings:

NOTE: Following tests were ran without proper drivers.

Custom Benchmark Suite:

GTX660:Overall score: 2278 points.GTX560Ti448:Overall score: 2340 points.

3DMark 11 (Performance):

GTX660:P6485 3DMarksGTX560TI:P6093 3DMarks

Unigine Heaven Benchmark:

GTX660 FPS: 61.0 |Scores: 1537GTX560TiFPS: 59.0 | Scores: 1487

Overclocked Settings:

3DMark 11:

GTX 660 1080/1133MHZ:P6832 3DMarks

Unigine Heaven:

GTX 660 1080/1133MHZ:FPS 65.5 | Scores 1651

The GTX 660 launches on 13th September, reference models such as the Inno3D GTX 660 Herculez would cost $229 at launch.