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GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GTX 970
IntroThe GeForce GTX 660 has a GPU clock speed of 980 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1502 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 960 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.Compare that to the GeForce GTX 970, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1050 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 1664 SPUs as well as 104 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.
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BenchmarksThese 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
Power Usage and Theoretical BenchmarksPower Consumption (Max TDP)
Memory BandwidthTheoretically, the GeForce GTX 970 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 660 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 970 should be a lot (about 39%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 660. (explain)
Pixel RateThe GeForce GTX 970 should be a lot (about 186%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)
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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Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.
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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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