ASUS GTX670-DC2-4GD5 Pro Reviews

This evaluation has concluded that there isn't any advantage, even in the latest games, to using an ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 4GB video card over a 2GB equivalent for a single-display gaming. We can honestly say now that 2GB is "good enough" even in the latest games like Far Cry 3 and Hitman and Sleeping Dogs for single display gaming on a GeForce GTX 670. The fact is, the performance isn't high enough with a GTX 670 GPU to allow the advantage of 4GB of memory at 1080p or 2560x1600. When we also consider the ability to run NV Surround resolutions off of one video card, the GeForce GTX 670 GPU itself again is not powerful enough to benefit from the 4GB. Therefore, we can conclude, if you are going to be getting a GeForce GTX 670, and only sticking to single-card, single display gaming, or even NV Surround, 2GB models are the better value. However, next week, we are going to evaluate the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 4GB using two video cards, with SLI, in NV Surround and see if the extra money for 4GB is worth it in that scenario, so stay tuned.

We've given the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II 4GB video cards plenty of opportunities to prove to us why we would need 4GB of VRAM on these. Unfortunately, these have come short of proving this. We tried pushing a single ASUS GTX 670 4GB to the max on a 30" display, at more than playable settings, and also at 1080p. We saw no advantages with a single card. Then we put two together in SLI and tried to push them to the max at 5760x1200. What we found was that higher settings were possible to enable, but the performance wasn't there to allow them to be playable. Simply, the performance of GTX 670 isn't enough to utilize the capacity of 4GB of VRAM. This is a shame, because the extra RAM has pushed up the pricing on the ASUS GTX 670 4GB to levels that are near Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and GeForce GTX 680 video cards at $459.99. Both of those video cards are clearly faster than GeForce GTX 670 GPU based video cards. So the extra money, doesn't buy us the extra performance we would want. Instead, the extra money, is better spent buying the faster GTX 680 or HD 7970 GHz Edition GPU based video card, to get better performance in games.