GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs Radeon R9 285
Summary
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
100%
Radeon R9 285
158%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 |
| 50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 285 . |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon R9 285 |
| Around 58% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 285
The Radeon R9 285 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 | | Radeon R9 285 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK104 () | vs | Tonga (Tonga PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | vs | 366 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,540 million | vs | 5,000 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 918 MHz |
| ROPs | 24 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 | | Radeon R9 285 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 | | Radeon R9 285 | |
|---|
| TDP | 140 watts | vs | 190 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Sep 2014 | vs | 2 Sep 2014 |
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
19.90 GP/s
Radeon R9 285
29.38 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
79.40 GT/s
Radeon R9 285
102.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
144.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 285
176.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
1907.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 285
3290.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
6800
Radeon R9 285
10790
Points (higher is better)