NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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

Boost Clock1032MHz

Lower TDP (140W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +184%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2014

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

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

960

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

24

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

438 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

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