NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 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

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 601 MHz
  • 10.9x more texture fill rate: 78.4 billion / sec vs 7.21 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 960 vs 240
  • 6.9x better floating-point performance: 1,981 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 13.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4000 vs 292
  • Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 479 vs 344
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3365 vs 2648
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3365 vs 2648
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 September 2012 vs 6 November 2007
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 601 MHz
Texture fill rate 78.4 billion / sec vs 7.21 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 240
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4000 vs 292
PassMark - G2D Mark 479 vs 344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3365 vs 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3365 vs 2648

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

  • 266.7x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4000
292
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
479
344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3365
2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3365
2648
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 4000 292
PassMark - G2D Mark 479 344
Geekbench - OpenCL 11374
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3365 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3365 2648
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1307

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK106 R600
Launch date 6 September 2012 6 November 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 774 777
Price now $349.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 14.35

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1033 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 601 MHz
CUDA cores 960
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 960 240
Texture fill rate 78.4 billion / sec 7.21 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 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)
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.3 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

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