AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition +561%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

1.981 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

980 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

960

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

4 MB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GK104

Vega 10 XTX AIR

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Kepler

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

140W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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