NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1032MHz vs 780MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +296%

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 600

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

730 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

780 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

960

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

24

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

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

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Oland

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

77 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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