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GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon HD 6850

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti comes with clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6850, which has a GPU core clock speed of 775 MHz, and 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 960 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, 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

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 6013 points
Radeon HD 6850 2395 points
Difference: 3618 (151%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 150 Watts
Difference: 23 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be 13% quicker than the Radeon HD 6850 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 144000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec
Difference: 16000 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 Ti will be a lot (about 175%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 6850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 Ti 102480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 65280 (175%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 6850 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 21960 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2840 (13%)

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 6850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2012 October 2010
Code Name GK104 Barts Pro
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 915 MHz 775 MHz
Memory Speed 6000 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 150 watts 127 watts
Bandwidth 144000 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102480 Mtexels/sec 37200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21960 Mpixels/sec 24800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1344 960
Texture Mapping Units 112 48
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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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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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