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GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 660 has a GPU core clock speed of 980 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM is set to run at 1502 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 960 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 M395X, which has GPU core speed of 723 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
GeForce GTX 660 140 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (12%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 M395X should be 11% faster than the GeForce GTX 660 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 660 144192 MB/sec
Difference: 15808 (11%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X should be a bit (more or less 18%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 660. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 660 78400 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 14144 (18%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 660 should be a bit (about 2%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 M395X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 660 23520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 384 (2%)

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 M395X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year September 2012 2015
Code Name GK106 Tonga
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 980 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 140 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 144192 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 78400 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 23520 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 960 2048
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 24 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2540 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 660

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Radeon R9 M395X

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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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