NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM 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 - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 12% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 875 MHz
  • 5.9x more texture fill rate: 82.56 GTexel / s vs 14 GTexel / s
  • 5x more pipelines: 960 vs 192
  • 5.9x better floating-point performance: 1,981 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1782 MHz
  • 13.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 39.216 vs 2.907
  • 2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.173 vs 0.475
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2014 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 875 MHz
Texture fill rate 82.56 GTexel / s vs 14 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 192
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops vs 336.0 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.216 vs 2.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.173 vs 0.475

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 140 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 140 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
39.216
2.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1.173
0.475
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.216 2.907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.173 0.475
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 182.993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 7.65
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 18.19
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2029
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2029

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 OEM

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Kepler
Code name GK104 GK107
Launch date 13 September 2014 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating 1511 1514
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1032 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 875 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops 336.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 960 192
Texture fill rate 82.56 GTexel / s 14 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 1,270 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm 145 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 28.51 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1782 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3