NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (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 960 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 29% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 915 MHz
  • Around 23% higher boost clock speed: 1201 MHz vs 980 MHz
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 1168.7x more memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
  • 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 36.256
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 26 November 2015 vs 16 August 2012
Core clock speed 1176 MHz vs 915 MHz
Boost clock speed 1201 MHz vs 980 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops vs 2,459.5 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 vs 36.256

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

  • Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 102.5 billion / sec vs 76.86 GTexel / s
  • Around 31% higher pipelines: 1344 vs 1024
  • Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1029.267 vs 890.785
  • Around 60% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 45.894 vs 28.659
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 102.5 billion / sec vs 76.86 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 1024
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1029.267 vs 890.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 45.894 vs 28.659

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
76.687
36.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
890.785
1029.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
28.659
45.894
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 76.687 36.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 890.785 1029.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.659 45.894
PassMark - G3D Mark 4407
PassMark - G2D Mark 461
Geekbench - OpenCL 15191
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.001
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 1616

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 Kepler
Code name GM206 GK104
Launch date 26 November 2015 16 August 2012
Place in performance rating 961 736
Type Desktop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $299
Price now $321.99
Value for money (0-100) 17.34

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1201 MHz 980 MHz
Core clock speed 1176 MHz 915 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,460 gflops 2,459.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1024 1344
Texture fill rate 76.86 GTexel / s 102.5 billion / sec
Transistor count 2,940 million 3,540 million
CUDA cores 1344
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort, One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI...
Audio input for HDMI Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None Two 6-pin
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 9.5" (24.1 cm)
SLI options 3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.2 GB / s 144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 6.0 GB/s
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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