NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Review

Battlefield 3 is a rare treat when it comes to PC gaming. Rather than develop the game for the consoles first and then port over to the PC, DICE built the game with the PC in mind from the getgo. It’s graphically one of the most impressive games ever created, so it’s of little surprise that it finds itself in our testing.

Manual Run-through: Operation Guillotine (chapter 5) is the basis for our benchmarking here, as it features a lot of smoke, water, debris and is reliable to benchmark repeatedly. Our run starts us at the top of a hill, where we immediately rise up and run down it. We make our way down to the riverbed below, and end our run once we hit the first set of stairs.

For its price-point of $229, the GTX 660 delivers quite impressive performance in Battlefield 3. While 2560×1600 at max detail is a stretch, 1080p is just fine. Should you need a higher resolution, you’ll need to back down to medium or high resolution, depending, but there’s still quite a bit of brawn in this seemingly modest card.