NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +29%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

-

888 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GF110

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

GF110-380-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

3 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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