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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 has a clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 960 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which comes with core clock speeds of 975 MHz on the GPU, and 1400 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs 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

Radeon R7 370 2G 5582 points
GeForce GTX 660 5063 points
Difference: 519 (10%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (27%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be 24% quicker than the GeForce GTX 660 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
Difference: 35008 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 will be much (approximately 26%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 370 2G. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16000 (26%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be quite a bit (approximately 33%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 660, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7680 (33%)

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 R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2012 June 2015
Code Name GK106 Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 144192 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 78400 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23520 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 1024
Texture Mapping Units 80 64
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2540 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.5

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

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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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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