NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock1032MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

744 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (140W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +269%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

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GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Sep 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

27

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

216

80

TMUs

72

24

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GT200

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

140W

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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