Product Compare

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Sep 2012 Oct 2010
Generation GeForce 600 Northern Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 980 MHz
Boost Clock 1032 MHz
Memory Clock 1502 MHz 1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 1024MB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 192bit 256bit
Bandwidth 144.2GB/s 134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 960 1120
TMUs 80 56
ROPs 24 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 384 KB 512 KB
Compute Units 14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 20.64 GPixel/s 28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 82.56 GTexel/s 50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.981 TFLOPS 2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 82.56 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK106 Barts
GPU Variant GK106-400-A1 Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture Kepler TeraScale 2
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2.54 billion 1.7 billion
Die Size 221 mm² 255 mm²
Board Design
TDP 140W 151W
Suggested PSU 300 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.1 N/A
CUDA 3.0
Shader Model 5.1 5.0