NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs ATI FireGL V3600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and ATI FireGL V3600 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 21.4x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
  • 11.2x more pipelines: 1344 vs 120
  • 17.1x better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 144 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 24.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4427 vs 180
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 465 vs 399
  • Around 90% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3337 vs 1755
  • Around 90% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3337 vs 1755
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 16 August 2012 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 120
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops vs 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4427 vs 180
PassMark - G2D Mark 465 vs 399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337 vs 1755
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 vs 1755

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3600

  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 73 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 166.7x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 73 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4427
180
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
465
399
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
1755
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
1755
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti ATI FireGL V3600
PassMark - G3D Mark 4427 180
PassMark - G2D Mark 465 399
Geekbench - OpenCL 15328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 36.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1029.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.037
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 45.894
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 82.191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337 1755
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 1755
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1616

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti ATI FireGL V3600

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV630
Launch date 16 August 2012 28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $299
Place in performance rating 744 745
Price now $321.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 17.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz
Core clock speed 915 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops 144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1344 120
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec 4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 73 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 390 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI... No outputs
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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA