NVIDIA RTX A1000 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

VS

NVIDIA RTX A1000

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A1000 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A1000 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (1462MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A1000 +240%

6.737 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

RTX A1000

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Apr 2024

Release Date

Sep 2012

Quadro Ampere

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

727 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1462 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

18

SM Count

-

2304

Shading Units

960

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

72

Tensor Cores

-

18

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.78 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

105.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

6.737 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.737 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

105.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

GK106

-

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Kepler

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.7 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.6

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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