GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GTX 750 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, which comes with a clock frequency of 1020 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1350 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 640 SPUs, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 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
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, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 will be a lot (about 92%) more effective at texture 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 is quite a bit (approximately 44%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and also able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to get to the maximum fill rate.