NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and ATI Radeon HD 5850 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 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 35% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 1033 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 78.4 billion / sec vs 52.2 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 8% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 151 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• 2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4013 vs 1970
• Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 482 vs 404
• Around 85% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 30.505 vs 16.467
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.085 vs 1.541

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

• Around 50% higher pipelines: 1440 vs 960
• Around 5% better floating-point performance: 2,088.0 gflops vs 1,981 gflops
• 666.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
• 3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33977 vs 11373
• Around 57% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1109.612 vs 705.293
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 42.08 vs 35.416
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3806 vs 3581
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3690
• Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3806 vs 3581
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3690

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4013 1970
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	482 404
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	11373 33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	30.505 16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	705.293 1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.085 1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	35.416 42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3581 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3690 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3365 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3581 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3690 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3365 3358

Compare specifications (specs)