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GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon HD 6870

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this particular card. It features 1344 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare that to the Radeon HD 6870, which has a core clock speed of 900 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1050 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 1120 SPUs, 56 TAUs, and 32 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 Ti 6013 points
Radeon HD 6870 2870 points
Difference: 3143 (110%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
Radeon HD 6870 151 Watts
Difference: 1 Watts (1%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 6870 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6870 134400 MB/sec
Difference: 9600 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 103%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 6870. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6870 50400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 52080 (103%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6870 will be quite a bit (more or less 31%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon HD 6870 28800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6840 (31%)

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 Ti Radeon HD 6870
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2012 October 2010
Code Name GK104 Barts XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 4200 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 144000 MB/sec 134400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 50400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21960 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 1120
Texture Mapping Units 112 56
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 3540 million 1700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.1

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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