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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released August, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 823 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.5 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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Expected June, 2013
Nvidia GeForce GT 730
- 902 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.2 Out of 10
by Anthony-Garreffa (Jan, 2013)NVIDIA are now listing something called the "GeForce Performance Score" which is used to define the performance of a part relative to Intel's HD4000 iGPU.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 660 vs 730 among Desktop 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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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 40.1 GB/s | Around 4.5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 4,121 | vs | 922 | Around 4.5x better PassMark score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 79 GTexel/s | vs | 14.43 GTexel/s | Around 5.5x higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly more texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 16 | 80 more texture mapping units | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,896.2 GFLOPS | vs | 692.7 GFLOPS | Around 2.8x better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 44.27 | vs | 11.11 | Around 4x better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 32 | vs | 8 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 5,012 MHz | More than 10% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Much higher battlefield 3 framerate | 50 | vs | 28.5 | More than 75% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| More shading units | 1,152 | vs | 384 | Three times as many shading units | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 19.75 GPixel/s | vs | 7.22 GPixel/s | Around 2.8x higher pixel rate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,948 | vs | 640 | More than 3x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 1,253 MHz | More than 10% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
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| Slightly higher clock speed | 902 MHz | vs | 823 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly lower TDP | 38W | vs | 130W | 3.4x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 660 vs GT 730
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection 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
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