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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 5770

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 comes with clock speeds of 980 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 960 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5770, which features core clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 800(160x5) SPUs along with 40 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 5770 108 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
Difference: 32 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 660 should in theory be a lot better than the Radeon HD 5770 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
Radeon HD 5770 76800 MB/sec
Difference: 67392 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 will be much (about 131%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon HD 5770. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 34000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 44400 (131%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 660 is superior to the Radeon HD 5770, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 5770 13600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 9920 (73%)

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 HD 5770
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2012 October 13, 2009
Code Name GK106 Juniper XT
Memory 2048 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 108 watts
Bandwidth 144192 MB/sec 76800 MB/sec
Texel Rate 78400 Mtexels/sec 34000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23520 Mpixels/sec 13600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 800(160x5)
Texture Mapping Units 80 40
Render Output Units 24 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 40 nm
Transistors 2540 million 1040 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660

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Radeon HD 5770

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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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