AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM 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 R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +890%

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Sep 2012

Volcanic 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

667 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

-

160

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

128 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

5.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

200.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

GK106

Caicos PRO

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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