NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and ATI Radeon HD 5830 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

ATI Radeon HD 5830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 14% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 980 MHz vs 800 MHz
2.3x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Around 20% higher pipelines: 1344 vs 1120
Around 37% better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 175 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4407 vs 1734
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 461 vs 399

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 August 2012 vs 25 February 2010
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 800 MHz
Boost clock speed	980 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1344 vs 1120
Floating-point performance	2,459.5 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4407 vs 1734
PassMark - G2D Mark	461 vs 399

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

666.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4407

1734

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

461

399

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark	4407	1734
PassMark - G2D Mark	461	399
Geekbench - OpenCL	15191
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)	3.001
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3285
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3337
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1616	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK104	Cypress
Launch date	16 August 2012	25 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	734	537
Price now	$321.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	17.34
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	980 MHz	800 MHz
Core clock speed	915 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,459.5 gflops	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1344	1120
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	2,154 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...	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)	282 mm
SLI options	3-way
Supplementary power connectors	Two 6-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA
AMD Eyefinity