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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M videocard review. Benchmark and Specs

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M graphics card (also called GPU) comes in 426 in the performance rating. It is a good result. The videocard NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M runs with the minimal clock speed 598 MHz. It is featured by the acceleration option and able to run up to . The manufacturer has equipped NVIDIA with GB of 1536 MB memory, clock speed 1500 MHz and bandwidth 72.0 GB/s.

The power consumption of the video card is 75 Watt, and the fabrication process is only 40 nm. Below you will find the main data on the compatibility, sizes, technologies and gaming performance test results. Also you can read and leave the comments.

Let's take a closer look at the most important specifications of the graphics card. To have a good idea what a video card is the best, we recommend to use comparison service.

4.6 Out of 27 Hitesti score

General info

The basic set of information will help you find out the videocard’s release date and its purpose (laptops or PCs), as well as the price at the time of the release and the average current price. This data also includes the architecture employed by the producer, and the chip’s codename.

Place in performance rating:		429
Architecture:		Fermi 2.0
Code name:		GF114
Type:		Laptop
Release date:		22 March 2012

Technical specs

This is the important information that defines the videocard’s capacity. The simpler the device production process, the better. The core’s power frequency is responsible for its speed (direct correlation) while the elaboration of signals is performed by the transistors (the more transistors, the faster the computations are carried out).

Pipelines:		336
Core clock speed:		598 MHz
Transistor count:		1,950 million
Manufacturing process technology:		40 nm
Power consumption (TDP):		75 Watt
Texture fill rate:		33.5 billion/sec
Floating-point performance:		803.7 gflops
CUDA cores:		336

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Today there are numerous form factors for PC cases, so it is extremely important to know the length of the videocard and the types of its connection. This will help facilitate the upgrade process.

Interface:		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size:		large
SLI options:		+
Bus support:		PCI Express 2.0

Memory

The internal main memory is used for storing data while conducting computations. Contemporary games and professional graphic apps have high requirements for the memory’s volume and capacity. The higher this parameter, the more powerful and fast the videocard is. Type of memory, the capacity and bandwidth for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

Memory type:		GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount:		1536 MB
Memory bus width:		192bit
Memory clock speed:		1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth:		72.0 GB/s
Shared memory:		-

Video outputs and ports

As a rule, all contemporary videocards feature several connection types and additional ports. Knowing these peculiarities is crucial for avoiding problems with connecting the videocard to the monitor or other peripheral devices.

Display Connectors:		No outputs
HDCP:		+
Maximum VGA resolution:		Up to 2048x1536
HDMI:		+

Technologies

Each graphic card manufacturer complements its products with branded technologies that are used both in games and in the working process. Below is the list of peculiar features that you may find rather useful.

3D Vision:		+
CUDA:		+
Optimus:		+
FXAA:		+
Adaptive VSync:		+
Verde Drivers:		+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play:		+

API support

All API-supported NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M are listed below.

DirectX:		12 API
OpenGL:		4.5
OpenCL:		1.1

Overall gaming performance

All tests have been based on FPS counter. Let’s have a look on what place NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M has been taken in the gaming performance test (calculation has been made in accordance with the game developer recommendations about system requirements; it can differ from the real world situations).

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Legend
5	Stutter – The performance of this video card with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from video cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to stutter and show low frame rates.
	May Stutter – The performance of this video card with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from video cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to stutter and show low frame rates.
30	Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 25fps or more
40	Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 35fps or more
60	Fluent – According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphical settings, this game is expected to run at 58fps or more
	May Run Fluently – The performance of this video card with this game is not well explored yet. According to interpolated information obtained from video cards of similar efficiency levels, the game is likely to show fluent frame rates.
?	Uncertain – The testing of this video card on this game showed unexpected results. A slower card might be able to produce higher and more consistent frame rates when running the same benchmark scene.
	Uncertain – The performance of this video card with this game is not well explored yet. No reliable data interpolation can be made based on the performance of similar cards of the same category.
The value in the fields reflects the average frame rate across the entire database. To obtain individual results, move your cursor over the value.

AMD equivalent

AMD Radeon HD 7770M Compare

Benchmark

Benchmarks help determine the performance in standard tests for AMD Baffin. We have listed the world’s most famous benchmarks so that you could obtain accurate results in each (see the description). Videocard preliminary testing is especially important in the presence of high loads so that the user could see to what extent the graphic processing unit copes with computations and data elaboration.

Overall benchmark performance

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M

8.02%

AMD FirePro W600

7.99%

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

7.97%

AMD Radeon HD 7770M

7.95%

AMD Radeon HD 6790

7.95%

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Unlike Ice Storm, Cloud Gate test elaborated by 3DMark employs more resource-intensive scenes. The better the final estimation, the faster your videocard is. The processing is carried out by means of DirectX 10.

AMD Radeon R7 250

15080

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M

14967

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

14940

Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4 (Ice Lake 48 EU)

14917

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10

14835

3DMark Fire Strike Score

This is an advanced videocard benchmark. With DirectX 11 being used for conducting the processing, the normal testing time is 15 minutes. The higher the estimation, the faster the videocard is.