{"id":43167,"date":"2012-08-17T13:06:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43167"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:08:53","slug":"nvidia-unveils-geforce-gtx-660-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43167-nvidia-unveils-geforce-gtx-660-ti","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 660 Ti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia announced the newest chipset in its 600 series of video-processing hardware, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which is designed primarily for gamers and enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>The GTX 660 Ti\u00a0is based on the same Kepler architecture as the chipsets powering the previously-released\u00a0cards in the 600 series: the\u00a0single-GPU GTX 670 and GTX 680, and the dual-GPU GTX 690.<\/p>\n<p>The GTX 660 Ti will support DirectX 11 rendering, which lets games take advantage of\u00a0visual features such as tessellation. It will also use PhysX on-board physics processing.<\/p>\n<p>Kepler-specific features, such as temporal anti-aliasing (TXAA), a combination of hardware-based Morphological Anti-Aliasing\u00a0(or\u00a0MSAA) and\u00a0Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA),\u00a0and GPU Boost &#8211; which dynamically increases the card&#8217;s clock speed if the thermal and electrical headroom exist &#8211; are supported as well.<\/p>\n<p>For a limited time, gamers who purchase a GTX 660 Ti GPU from a participating retailer or e-tailer will receive a voucher for a free copy of Gearbox\u2019s upcoming sequel, Borderlands 2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43168\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43168\" class=\" wp-image-43168\" title=\"GeForce GTX 660 Ti\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/03G-P4-3668-KR_XL_1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GeForce GTX 660 Ti<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/42836-introduction-to-overclocking-jargon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Introduction to overclocking jargon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/42891-gaming-mouse-pricing-comparison.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gaming mouse pricing comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/42835-5-cool-pc-gaming-preipheral-features-we-take-for-granted.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>5 cool PC gaming features we take for granted<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/13764-important-gaming-motherboard-features.html\">Important gaming motherboard features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/13786-pc-cleaning-tips-and-tricks.html\">PC cleaning tips and tricks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/33039-how-to-budget-on-pc-components.html\">How to budget on PC components<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia introduces a new contender into its 600 series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":43169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[31,6276,47,6292,45],"class_list":["post-43167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-geforce-gtx-660-ti","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43179,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43167\/revisions\/43179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}