NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (1709MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +120%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

960

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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