NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 6850 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: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• 2.3x more texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 37.2 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 960
• Around 38% better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 1,488.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
• 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.718 vs 13.033
• Around 8% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 946.933
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.143 vs 1.333
• Around 73% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 56.509 vs 32.609
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 3489
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 3489

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850

• Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 127 Watt vs 130 Watt
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 139.45 vs 67.697
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 3665
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3348 vs 3325
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 3665
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3348 vs 3325

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	32.718 13.033
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1021.371 946.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.143 1.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	56.509 32.609
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	67.697 139.45
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 3489
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3348

Compare specifications (specs)