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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 based on its benchmarks, compute performance and noise and power.
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Released August, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 823 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.9 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)3DMark 11, as the name might probably suggest, makes use of the Microsoft DirectX 11 API and puts every feature of it at its disposal to use, creating astonishingly realistic visuals.
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Released March, 2011
MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- 950 MHz
- 1 GB GDDR5
6.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Nov, 2011)In terms of performance, Palit has increased their card's clocks to 835/1025 MHz up from 823/1002 MHz on the reference design.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 660 vs 560 Ti 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 | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.9 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 4,200 MHz | Around 35% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
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| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 25,130 | vs | 17,648 | More than 40% better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 134.4 GB/s | Around 35% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 6,850 | vs | 4,013 | More than 70% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Better PassMark score | 4,121 | vs | 3,538 | More than 15% better PassMark score | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 18,060 | vs | 16,518 | Around 10% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much higher FarCry 3 framerate | 80 | vs | 37.5 | Around 2.2x higher FarCry 3 framerate | |||
| More shading units | 1,152 | vs | 384 | Three times as many shading units | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 1,896.2 GFLOPS | vs | 1,459.2 GFLOPS | Around 30% better floating-point performance | |||
| More texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 64 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher texture rate | 79 GTexel/s | vs | 60.8 GTexel/s | Around 30% higher texture rate | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 1,050 MHz | Around 35% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 44.27 | vs | 32.93 | Around 35% better fire strike factor score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,948 | vs | 1,437 | More than 35% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Lower TDP | 130W | vs | 170W | Around 25% lower TDP | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 950 MHz | vs | 823 MHz | More than 15% higher clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 660 vs 560 Ti
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
Bioshock Infinite
FarCry 3
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