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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 6950

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 has a core clock speed of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1502 MHz. It also features a 192-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 960 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6950, which features a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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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
Radeon HD 6950 3240 points
Difference: 1823 (56%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
Radeon HD 6950 200 Watts
Difference: 60 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6950 should theoretically be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 660 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
Difference: 15808 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 is a little bit (approximately 11%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6950 70400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8000 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6950 will be a little bit (about 9%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 660, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon HD 6950 25600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2080 (9%)

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 660 Radeon HD 6950
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2012 December 2010
Code Name GK106 Cayman Pro
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 144192 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 78400 Mtexels/sec 70400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23520 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 1408
Texture Mapping Units 80 88
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2540 million 2640 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce GTX 660

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Radeon HD 6950

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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