NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL 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 670

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 32x more texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 59.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5331 vs 89
  • Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 530 vs 288
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 10 May 2012 vs 14 November 2004
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5331 vs 89
PassMark - G2D Mark 530 vs 288

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

  • 133.3x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5331
89
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
530
288
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark 5331 89
PassMark - G2D Mark 530 288
Geekbench - OpenCL 15436
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 41.613
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 971.208
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.281
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 40.404
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 86.208
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3686
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1816

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Curie
Code name GK104 NV43 A2
Launch date 10 May 2012 14 November 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 566 569
Price now $474.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 13.20

Technical info

Boost clock speed 980 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 400 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C
Pipelines 1344
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 170 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 146 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 1x DVI, 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 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) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.2 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 192.2 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256-bit GDDR5 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.0 GB/s 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

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