NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1000MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

2.634 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +55%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

915 MHz

Base Clock

950 MHz

980 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

109.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

2.634 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

109.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Tahiti

GK104-300-KD-A2

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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