NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (140W vs 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition +37%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Jun 2010

GeForce 600

Generation

Evergreen

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

1195 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

960

Shading Units

1600

80

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

228W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Cypress

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 10 GB

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI FireMV 2250

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

6

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon RX 570 X2

7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210 OEM

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 PCI

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI Radeon HD 5670

Related News

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

6

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

7

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

8

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

9

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

10

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!