NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (85W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

960

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

85W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 3200

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4350 AGP

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon 540

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 AD106

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R7 350X OEM

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA TITAN V

Related News

1

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

2

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

3

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

4

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

5

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

6

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

7

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

8

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

9

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

10

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers