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    GeForce GTX 460 vs GeForce GTX 660

    GeForce GTX 460
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 12 Jul 2010
    GeForce GTX 460
    GeForce GTX 660
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 6 Sep 2012
    GeForce GTX 660

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 460
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 660
      192%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 460

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 92% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 460GeForce GTX 660
    GPU NameGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
    Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size332 mm²vs221 mm²
    Transistors1,950 millionvs2,540 million
    Shaders336vs960
    Compute Units7vs5
    Core clock675 MHzvs980 MHz
    ROPs32vs24
    TMUs56vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 460GeForce GTX 660
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed900 MHz
    3600 MHz effective    		vs1502 MHz
    6008 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 460GeForce GTX 660
    TDP160 wattsvs140 watts
    Release Date12 Jul 2010vs6 Sep 2012

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 460
      9.45 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 660
      19.60 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 460
      37.80 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 660
      78.40 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 460
      115.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 660
      144.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 460
      907.20 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 660
      1882.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 460
      3530
    • GeForce GTX 660
      6800

    Points (higher is better)

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