
MSI GeForce GTX 660 HAWK 2 GB Review
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 was released just a month ago. It packs a total of 960 CUDA cores with 80 texture memory units (TMUs), 24 raster operations processors (ROPs), and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. As with the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, NVIDIA set 2 GB as the standard memory amount for the GeForce GTX 660. A 192-bit wide memory interface, populated with six memory chips of the same 2 Gbit density, should, typically, result in a memory amount of 1.5 GB.

MSI's GeForce GTX 660 HAWK is a highly customized version of the Geforce GTX 660 and comes with several features for enthusiast overclockers like dual BIOS, with the second BIOS being optimized for liquid nitrogen use, and voltage measurements points for voltmods.
The GPU clock has been increased by over 100 MHz, which will provide a nice performance boost. Unfortunately, memory has remained at the default speed of 1500 MHz.
Radeon HD 6950 | GeForce GTX 570 | Radeon HD 6970 | Radeon HD 7850 | GeForce GTX 660 | MSI GTX 660 HAWK | Radeon HD 7870 | GeForce GTX 580 | GeForce GTX 660 Ti | Radeon HD 7950 | GeForce GTX 670 | Radeon HD 7970 | |
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Shader Units | 1408 | 480 | 1536 | 1024 | 960 | 960 | 1280 | 512 | 1344 | 1792 | 1344 | 2048 |
ROPs | 32 | 40 | 32 | 32 | 24 | 24 | 32 | 48 | 24 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
Graphics Processor | Cayman | GF110 | Cayman | Pitcairn | GK106 | GK106 | Pitcairn | GF110 | GK104 | Tahiti | GK104 | Tahiti |
Transistors | 2640M | 3000M | 2640M | 2800M | 2540M | 2540M | 2800M | 3000M | 3500M | 4310M | 3500M | 4310M |
Memory Size | 2048 MB | 1280 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 2048 MB | 1536 MB | 2048 MB | 3072 MB | 2048 MB | 3072 MB |
Memory Bus Width | 256 bit | 320 bit | 256 bit | 256 bit | 192 bit | 192 bit | 256 bit | 384 bit | 192 bit | 384 bit | 256 bit | 384 bit |
Core Clock | 800 MHz | 732 MHz | 880 MHz | 860 MHz | 980 MHz+ | 1085 MHz+ | 1000 MHz | 772 MHz | 915 MHz+ | 800 MHz | 915 MHz+ | 925 MHz |
Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 950 MHz | 1375 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1200 MHz | 1002 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1250 MHz | 1502 MHz | 1375 MHz |
Price | $170 | $250 | $380 | $185 | $230 | $250 | $245 | $430 | $280 | $310 | $380 | $390 |