NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock888MHz

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +85%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 600

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

-

888 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1152

Shading Units

2048

96

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

New Zealand

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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