AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 55% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1033 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 6 September 2012
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1033 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

2.1x more pipelines: 960 vs 448
Around 22% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1307 vs 1069
Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11364 vs 11203

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	960 vs 448
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1307 vs 1069
Geekbench - OpenCL	11364 vs 11203

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

1307

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

11364

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	1307
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	11364
PassMark - G3D Mark		4017
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK106
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	6 September 2012
Place in performance rating	1317	740
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$349.99
Value for money (0-100)		14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1033 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	960
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
Transistor count		2,540 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.3
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
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width		192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed		6.0 GB/s
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA