NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 6870 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, Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 10 month(s) later
• Around 69% higher texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 50.4 GTexel / s
• Around 3% higher pipelines: 1152 vs 1120
• Around 1% better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 2,016.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 151 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
• 5.3x more memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 1050 MHz
• Around 99% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.718 vs 16.41
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 857.798
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.143 vs 1.346
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 56.509 vs 45.514
• Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 4238
• Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 4238

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870

• Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 888 MHz
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 184.41 vs 67.697
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3711 vs 3665
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3325
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3711 vs 3665
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3325

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6870

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	32.718 16.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1021.371 857.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.143 1.346
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	56.509 45.514
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	67.697 184.41
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 4238
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3711
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3349

Compare specifications (specs)