NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (140W vs 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +25%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

960

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GF110

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

3 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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