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GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660

Intro

The GeForce GTX 560 Ti uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 822 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1002 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs along with 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 660, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this card. It features 960 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 660 5063 points
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 3466 points
Difference: 1597 (46%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 170 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 660 is 12% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 128256 MB/sec
Difference: 15936 (12%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 should be a lot (more or less 49%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 52608 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 25792 (49%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 560 Ti is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 26304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2784 (12%)

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 560 Ti GeForce GTX 660
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year January 2011 September 2012
Code Name GF114 GK106
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 822 MHz 980 MHz
Memory Speed 4008 MHz 6008 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 170 watts 140 watts
Bandwidth 128256 MB/sec 144192 MB/sec
Texel Rate 52608 Mtexels/sec 78400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 26304 Mpixels/sec 23520 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 960
Texture Mapping Units 64 80
Render Output Units 32 24
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1950 million 2540 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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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Comments

One Response to “GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660”
Jack Abramoff says:

The site is missing the GTX 650 Ti Boost. It's closer to a cutdown GTX 660 than it is to the GTX 650 Ti (660 & 650 Ti Boost are 192-bit while 650 Ti is only 128-bit). It comes in a 2 GB version and a slightly downclocked 1 GB version as well.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/introducing-the-geforce-gtx-650-ti-boost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_600_series

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