NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs ATI Radeon E4690

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and ATI Radeon E4690 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 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 5.3x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 4.2x more pipelines: 1344 vs 320
  • 6.4x better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 10.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4412 vs 405
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 347
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3337 vs 3302
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3337 vs 3302
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 16 August 2012 vs 1 June 2009
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 320
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4412 vs 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 466 vs 347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3337 vs 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 vs 3302

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690

  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 233.3x more memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E4690

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4412
405
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
466
347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3337
3302
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti ATI Radeon E4690
PassMark - G3D Mark 4412 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 466 347
Geekbench - OpenCL 15349
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 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3337 3302
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1615

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti ATI Radeon E4690

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV730
Launch date 16 August 2012 1 June 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 726 729
Price now $321.99
Type Desktop Desktop
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 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1344 320
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 514 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...
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 MXM-II
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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