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GeForce GTX 460 1GB vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Intro

The GeForce GTX 460 1GB uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 675 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 900 MHz on this card. It features 336 SPUs as well as 56 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this particular model. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 160 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be 25% quicker than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 115200 MB/sec
Difference: 28800 (25%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be a lot (about 171%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 37800 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 64680 (171%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be just a bit (approximately 2%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 460 1GB, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 1GB 21600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 360 (2%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 460 1GB GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year July 2010 August 2012
Code Name GF104 GK104
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 675 MHz 915 MHz
Memory Speed 3600 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 160 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 115200 MB/sec 144000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 37800 Mtexels/sec 102480 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 21960 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 336 1344
Texture Mapping Units 56 112
Render Output Units 32 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 3540 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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