AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +2%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Aug 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

823 MHz

-

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

1152

72

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

GK104

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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