NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 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 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 81% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 540 MHz
  • 18.1x more texture fill rate: 78.4 billion / sec vs 4.32 GTexel / s
  • 120x more pipelines: 960 vs 8
  • 95.2x better floating-point performance: 1,981 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • 36.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4017 vs 111
  • 11.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 487 vs 43
  • 6.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3365 vs 494
  • 6.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3365 vs 494
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 6 September 2012 vs 7 May 2009
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 540 MHz
Texture fill rate 78.4 billion / sec vs 4.32 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 8
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4017 vs 111
PassMark - G2D Mark 487 vs 43
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3365 vs 494
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3365 vs 494

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295

  • 6.1x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 140 Watt
  • 231.7x more memory clock speed: 1390 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 23 Watt vs 140 Watt
Memory clock speed 1390 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4017
111
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
487
43
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3365
494
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3365
494
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
PassMark - G3D Mark 4017 111
PassMark - G2D Mark 487 43
Geekbench - OpenCL 11364
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 494
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3365 494
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1307

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK106 G98
Launch date 6 September 2012 7 May 2009
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $54.50
Place in performance rating 740 1676
Price now $349.99 $49.75
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 14.35 2.51

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1033 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 540 MHz
CUDA cores 960
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 960 8
Texture fill rate 78.4 billion / sec 4.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 210 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 DisplayPort
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) 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors One 6-pin None

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 11.12 GB / s
Memory bus width 192-bit GDDR5 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 1390 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

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