AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Boost Clock1032MHz

Lower TDP (140W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 X2 +36%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Sep 2012

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

960

96

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

140W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GK106

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

221 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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