NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 +298%

1.981 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 600

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

960

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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