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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this specific card. It features 960 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which features a clock frequency of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1425 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1792 SPUs, 112 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 R9 380 4G 8837 points
GeForce GTX 660 5063 points
Difference: 3774 (75%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G 190 Watts
Difference: 50 Watts (36%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 380 4G is 26% faster than the GeForce GTX 660 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 182400 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
Difference: 38208 (26%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is a lot (approximately 39%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 660. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 108640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 30240 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 380 4G is a lot (approximately 32%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon R9 380 4G 31040 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 7520 (32%)

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 R9 380 4G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2012 June 2015
Code Name GK106 Antigua PRO
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 144192 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 78400 Mtexels/sec 108640 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23520 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 1792
Texture Mapping Units 80 112
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2540 million 5000 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 MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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

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GeForce GTX 660

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