AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 3

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 6 September 2012
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 1000 MHz
5x more pipelines: 960 vs 192

Boost clock speed	1033 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Pipelines	960 vs 192

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
PassMark - G3D Mark		4017
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
Geekbench - OpenCL		11364
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3365
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1307

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK106
Launch date	7 January 2018	6 September 2012
Place in performance rating	not rated	740
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$349.99
Value for money (0-100)		14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1033 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	192	960
Transistor count	4500 million	2,540 million
Core clock speed		980 MHz
CUDA cores		960
Floating-point performance		1,981 gflops
Texture fill rate		78.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		140 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory type	DDR4-2133, DDR4-2400	GDDR5
Shared memory	No
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed		6.0 GB/s
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
Display Connectors		One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		9.5" (24.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors		One 6-pin
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA