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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 660 sales 6 September 2012 at a recommended price of $229 . This is Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.0 GB/s are supplied, and together with 192-bit GDDR5 memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 144.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9.5" (24.1 cm). one 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 140 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 28.32 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining AMD equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of GeForce GTX 660's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

115

Perfomance to price

24.42

Architecture

Kepler

Code name

GK106

Type

Desktop

Release date

6 September 2012

Launch price (MSRP)

$229

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$349.99

of 4762.99 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 660's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 660's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

960

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

CUDA cores

960

Core clock speed

980 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Boost Clock

1033 MHz

of 1750 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Transistor count

2,540 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

78.4 billion/sec

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

1,981 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 660's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

9.5" (24.1 cm)

Height

4.376" (11.1 cm)

Width

2-slot

Supplementary power connectors

One 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 660: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

192-bit GDDR5

of 8192 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Memory clock speed

6.0 GB/s

of 11408 (TITAN Xp Collector's Edition Galactic Empire)

Memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

of 1024 (FirePro S9300 X2)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 660.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Display Connectors

One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

4 displays

HDMI

HDCP

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

G-SYNC support

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 660. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray

3D Gaming

3D Vision

GPU Boost

CUDA

SLI

FXAA

TXAA

Adaptive VSync

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 660, sometimes including their particular versions.

OpenGL

4.3

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 660. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

28.32

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

230731.00

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

6624.00

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

11028.00

3DMark Vantage Performance

44495.00

Unigine Heaven 3.0

6206.26

Passmark

4127

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

5040

Octane Render OctaneBench

Mining hashrate

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 660. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

66 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce GTX 660 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

101.2 %

AMD Radeon R9 370

100.32 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM

100 %

AMD Radeon RX 560

100 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

98.73 %

AMD Radeon R9 270

97.78 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

97.39 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 660 from AMD is Radeon RX 560, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our rating.