NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 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 4 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +52%

2.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 600

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1152

Shading Units

800

96

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

-

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Barts

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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