The Speeds And Feeds

The Speeds And Feeds

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As you can see, Nvidia's reference design on the far right is the only board in this round-up based on that design. Everyone else used different coolers, core clock rates, and, in a few cases, memory clock rates.

	Asus	Gainward	Galaxy	Palit	Gigabyte	Zotac	Nvidia
CUDA Cores	1344
Texture Units	112
ROPs	32
GPU Clock	1059 MHz	1006 MHz	1006 MHz	1006 MHz	980 MHz	1098 MHz	915 MHz
Boost Clock	1137 MHz	1085 MHz	1085 MHz	1085 MHz	1059 MHz	1167 MHz	980 MHz
Pixel Fill Rate	29.7 GPix/s	28.2 GPix/s	28.2 GPix/s	28.2 GPix/s	27.4 GPix/s	30.7 GPix/s	25.6 GPix/s
Texture Fill Rate	118.6 GTex/s	112.7 GTex/s	112.7 GTex/s	112.7 GTex/s	109.8 GTex/s	123 GTex/s	102.5 GTex/s
Memory Clock	1502 MHz	1527 MHz	1502 MHz	1527 MHz	1502 MHz	1652 MHz	1502 MHz
Memory Bus	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	192.3 GB/s	195.5 GB/s	192.3 GB/s	195.5 GB/s	192.3 GB/s	211.5 GB/s	192.3 GB/s
Memory	2 GB GDDR5
Die Size	294 mm²
Transistors	3.54 Billion
Power Connectors	6 + 6-pin	6 + 6-pin	8 + 6-pin	6 + 6-pin	8 + 6-pin	6 + 6-pin	6 + 6-pin
Street Price	$430	Not Available	$440	Not Available	$400	$440	$400

Pricing and Availability

It's difficult to keep a sharp bead on graphics card prices; they move every day, it seems. The best we could do here was check availability the day before this story went live in the U.S. and take a quick snapshot of the prices.
Nobody seems to have the Gainward or Palit cards in stock, meaning they're really only here for exhibition, since you can't get your hands on them even if you wanted to. One of the other models currently sells for the same $400 Nvidia charges for its reference design, while the other three cost notably more. We're just happy that the GeForce GTX 670 launch wasn't a predominantly paper-oriented affair like GeForce GTX 680, with miniscule quantities trickling out from Nvidia's board partners. Many of these models appear to be readily available, in contrast.