AMD Radeon HD 7790 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7790 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 7790

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
• Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 823 MHz
• Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 85 Watt vs 130 Watt
• Around 7% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 5600 MHz
• Around 25% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.763 vs 32.718
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.646 vs 3.143
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 63.284 vs 56.509
• 3.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 217.744 vs 67.697

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

• Around 52% higher texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 56 GTexel / s
• Around 29% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 896
• Around 14% better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 1,792 gflops
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 828.247
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 5087
• 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3665 vs 988
• Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 2061
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 5087
• 3.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3665 vs 988
• Around 61% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 2061

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7790
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.763 32.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	828.247 1021.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.646 3.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	63.284 56.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	217.744 67.697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5087 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	988 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2061 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5087 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	988 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2061 3325

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