GeForce GT 440 vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GT 440
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
GeForce GT 440
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 440
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    566%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 440

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 466% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 440GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGF108 (GF108-400-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size116 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors585 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders96vs960
Compute Units2vs5
Core clock810 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs4vs24
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 440GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 440GeForce GTX 660
TDP65 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date1 Feb 2011vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    3.24 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 440
    13.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 440
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 440
    311.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 440
    1200
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)