NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (1792GB vs 1536GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +393%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

823 MHz

Base Clock

-

888 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

192

96

TMUs

64

24

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

85.25 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.046 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

85.25 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GT200B

GK104-200-KD-A2

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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