NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Aug 2012
Generation
GeForce 600
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
980 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1032 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
144.2GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
960
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
24
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
384 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
20.64 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
82.56 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.981 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
82.56 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GK104
New Zealand
Architecture
Kepler
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3.54 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
140W
500W
Suggested PSU
300 W
900 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.1