AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
- Around 7% higher pipelines: 1440 vs 1344
- 666.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Pipelines | 1440 vs 1344 |
Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
- Around 26% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 725 MHz
- Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 52.2 GTexel / s
- Around 18% better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 2,088 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
- Around 1% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 151 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Core clock speed | 915 MHz vs 725 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 102.5 billion / sec vs 52.2 GTexel / s |
Floating-point performance | 2,459.5 gflops vs 2,088 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 40 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 150 Watt vs 151 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 2 GB vs 1 GB |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Name | AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 4426 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 465 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 15328 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 36.256 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1029.267 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 3.037 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 45.894 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 82.191 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3285 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3684 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3337 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3285 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3684 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3337 | |
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1616 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Kepler |
Code name | Cypress | GK104 |
Launch date | 21 August 2012 | 16 August 2012 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 745 |
Type | Desktop | Desktop |
Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | |
Price now | $321.99 | |
Value for money (0-100) | 17.34 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 725 MHz | 915 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 2,088 gflops | 2,459.5 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 28 nm |
Pipelines | 1440 | 1344 |
Texture fill rate | 52.2 GTexel / s | 102.5 billion / sec |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 151 Watt | 150 Watt |
Transistor count | 2,154 million | 3,540 million |
Boost clock speed | 980 MHz | |
CUDA cores | 1344 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... |
Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
G-SYNC support | ||
HDCP | ||
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Multi monitor support | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Length | 241 mm | 9.5" (24.1 cm) |
Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | Two 6-pin |
Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
SLI options | 3-way | |
API support |
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DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 12.0 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 4.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 2 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 128.0 GB / s | 144.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 192-bit GDDR5 |
Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz | 6.0 GB/s |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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3D Blu-Ray | ||
3D Gaming | ||
3D Vision | ||
Adaptive VSync | ||
CUDA | ||
FXAA | ||
GPU Boost | ||
SLI | ||
TXAA |