AMD Radeon HD 8790M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8790M 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 8790M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 823 MHz
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 80.418 vs 67.697

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

• Around 4% higher boost clock speed: 888 MHz vs 850 MHz
• 3.9x more texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
• 3x more pipelines: 1152 vs 384
• 3x better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
• Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 4000 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.718 vs 12.759
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 465.631
• Around 99% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.143 vs 1.576
• Around 96% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 56.509 vs 28.839
• 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 2181
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3665 vs 2656
• Around 65% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 2014
• 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 2181
• Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3665 vs 2656
• Around 65% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 2014

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8790M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	12.759 32.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	465.631 1021.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.576 3.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.839 56.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	80.418 67.697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2181 5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2656 3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2014 3325

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