GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 300W)
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1600MHz vs 1032MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
3136 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660
1981
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+561%
13110
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 660
1194
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+484%
6973
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 660
260
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+1187%
3348
Blender
GeForce GTX 660
111
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
+568%
742
Graphics Card
Sep 2012
Release Date
Jun 2017
GeForce 600
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
1382 MHz
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
192bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
960
Shading Units
4096
80
TMUs
256
24
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
20.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK106
GPU Name
Vega 10
GK106-400-A1
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.54 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
221 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4