AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1206MHz vs 888MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +141%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

2.046 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470

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GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2012

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

823 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

888 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1152

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GK104

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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