NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900 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

NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 915 MHz vs 350 MHz
73.2x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
129.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4413 vs 34
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 468 vs 258

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	16 August 2012 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	915 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4413 vs 34
PassMark - G2D Mark	468 vs 258

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

91.7x more memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4413

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

468

258

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	4413	34
PassMark - G2D Mark	468	258
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 PCX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Rankine
Code name	GK104	NV35
Launch date	16 August 2012	17 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	701	698
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	350 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	1344
Texture fill rate	102.5 billion / sec	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	135 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)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.3	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB / s	17.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	550 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA