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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
See full details GeForce GTX 660 vs GT 1030 |
Released August, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 823 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.6 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)The game graphics are, even today, top notch, yet the game still runs well on most computers.
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GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 660 vs 1030 among all GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.6 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better PassMark score | 4,121 | vs | 2,256 | Around 85% better PassMark score | |||
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| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 48.06 GB/s | Around 3.8x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| More texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 24 | 72 more texture mapping units | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 8 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| Higher texture rate | 79 GTexel/s | vs | 35.23 GTexel/s | Around 2.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 1,896.2 GFLOPS | vs | 1,127 GFLOPS | Around 70% better floating-point performance | |||
| More shading units | 1,152 | vs | 384 | Three times as many shading units | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 44.27 | vs | 27.03 | Around 65% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 19.75 GPixel/s | vs | 11.74 GPixel/s | Around 70% higher pixel rate | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
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| Significantly higher clock speed | 1,227 MHz | vs | 823 MHz | Around 50% higher clock speed | |||
| Much higher turbo clock speed | 1,468 MHz | vs | 888 MHz | More than 65% higher turbo clock speed | |||
| Better bitcoin mining score | 155.41 mHash/s | vs | 67.94 mHash/s | More than 2.2x better bitcoin mining score | |||
| Slightly higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,400 MHz | More than 5% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly lower TDP | 30W | vs | 130W | 4.3x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 660 vs GT 1030
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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