GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GTX 295
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 295
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 295
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    153%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 295

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

149 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 295 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 53% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 295GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGT200B (G200-400-B3)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders240vs960
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock576 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs28vs24
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 295GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bit x2vs192 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 295GeForce GTX 660
TDP289 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2009vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    32.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 295
    92.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 295
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 295
    1192.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 295
    4440
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)