GeForce GTX 660 vs TITAN V

Place in the ranking	82	439
Place by popularity	not in top-100	76
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	3.42
Power efficiency	12.19	5.09
Architecture	Volta (2017−2020)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GV100	GK106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	7 December 2017 (7 years ago)	6 September 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,999	$229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

TITAN V and GTX 660 have a nearly equal value for money.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	5120	960
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	980 MHz
Boost clock speed	1455 MHz	1033 MHz
Number of transistors	21,100 million	2,540 million
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	140 Watt
Texture fill rate	465.6	82.56
Floating-point processing power	14.9 TFLOPS	1.981 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	24
TMUs	320	80
Tensor Cores	640	no data

Form factor & compatibility

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

Bus support	no data	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	241 mm
Height	no data	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
SLI options	-	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	3072 Bit	192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed	848 MHz	6.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth	651.3 GB/s	144.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor support	no data	4 displays
HDMI	+	+
HDCP	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	Internal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray	-	+
3D Gaming	-	+
3D Vision	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.1.126
CUDA	7.0	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

TITAN V 44.44
+328%

GTX 660 10.39

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

TITAN V 17125
+328%

GTX 660 4005

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

TITAN V 156881
+1280%

GTX 660 11368

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

TITAN V 149970
+1216%

GTX 660 11395

GeekBench 5 CUDA

TITAN V 179522
+1992%

GTX 660 8583

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	200−210 +326%	47 −326%
1440p	152 +334%	35−40 −334%
4K	82 +356%	18−20 −356%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	15.00	4.87
1440p	19.73	6.54
4K	36.57	12.72

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	44.44	10.39
Recency	7 December 2017	6 September 2012
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	12 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	140 Watt

TITAN V has a 327.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 660, on the other hand, has 78.6% lower power consumption.

The TITAN V is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.