NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

Score

GeForce GTX 660

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Apr 2006

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

960

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

24

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

NV43

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

Kepler

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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