GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which has a clock frequency of 1020 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1350 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 Raster Operation 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 750 Ti		4562 points
	Difference: 501 (11%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 750 Ti		60 Watts
GeForce GTX 660		140 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 660 should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		144192 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		86400 MB/sec
	Difference: 57792 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 is a lot (approximately 92%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		78400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		40800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37600 (92%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 will be quite a bit (more or less 44%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660		23520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 750 Ti		16320 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7200 (44%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.