NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 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: 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 10 month(s) later
• Around 6% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 778 MHz
• Around 96% higher texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 43.6 GTexel / s
• 3.4x more pipelines: 1152 vs 336
• Around 96% better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 1,045.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 160 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB
• Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 4008 MHz
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 32.718 vs 22.161
• Around 31% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1021.371 vs 781.734
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.143 vs 2.125
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 56.509 vs 47.218
• Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5983 vs 3537
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3665 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3325 vs 3117
• Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5983 vs 3537
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3665 vs 3398
• Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3325 vs 3117

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

• Around 11% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 75.212 vs 67.697

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	32.718 22.161
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1021.371 781.734
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.143 2.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	56.509 47.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	67.697 75.212
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 3537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3398
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3117
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5983 3537
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3665 3398
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3325 3117

Compare specifications (specs)