NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs ATI Radeon X550 XTX

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and ATI Radeon X550 XTX 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 X550 XTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 400 MHz
32x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
62.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4411 vs 71
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 468 vs 240

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 August 2012 vs 24 January 2007
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4411 vs 71
PassMark - G2D Mark	468 vs 240

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X550 XTX

100x more memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X550 XTX

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4411

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

468

240

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	ATI Radeon X550 XTX
PassMark - G3D Mark	4411	71
PassMark - G2D Mark	468	240
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
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	1615

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	ATI Radeon X550 XTX
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R400
Code name	GK104	RV410
Launch date	16 August 2012	24 January 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	718	721
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	400 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	1344
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	120 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...	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB / s	4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA