NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI 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 4 month(s) later
  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 810 MHz
  • 15.8x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 6.48 GTexel / s
  • 28x more pipelines: 1344 vs 48
  • 15.8x better floating-point performance: 2,459.5 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
Launch date 16 August 2012 vs 2 April 2012
Core clock speed 915 MHz vs 810 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 6.48 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 48
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops vs 155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

  • 5.2x lower typical power consumption: 29 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 222.3x more memory clock speed: 1334 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 29 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed 1334 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI
PassMark - G3D Mark 4413
PassMark - G2D Mark 468
Geekbench - OpenCL 15375
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 NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 PCI

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Fermi 2.0
Code name GK104 GF119
Launch date 16 August 2012 2 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Place in performance rating 701 not rated
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 810 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops 155.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1344 48
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec 6.48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 29 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 292 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 HDMI, 1x VGA
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) 168 mm
SLI options 3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.3 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 10.67 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1334 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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