NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon RX 5700

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

AMD Radeon RX 5700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 5700 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1725MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700 +301%

7.949 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 660

1308

Radeon RX 5700 +549%

8497

GeForce GTX 660

VS

Radeon RX 5700

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Jul 2019

GeForce 600

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1465 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

-

960

Shading Units

2304

80

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

110.4 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

248.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.90 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.949 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

496.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

Navi 10

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XL (215-0917220)

Kepler

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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