NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420 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 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 176.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4422 vs 25
  • Around 99% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 465 vs 234
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 16 August 2012 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4422 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 465 vs 234

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4422
25
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
465
234
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420
PassMark - G3D Mark 4422 25
PassMark - G2D Mark 465 234
Geekbench - OpenCL 15315
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 1616

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 420

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Curie
Code name GK104 C61
Launch date 16 August 2012 11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 745 748
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 425 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1344
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 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 PCI
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.3 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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