GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Nov 2011
GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    155%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 .
Around 55% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameGF110 (GF110-270-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size520 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders448vs1344
Compute Units14vs7
Core clock732 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs40vs24
TMUs56vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width320 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed950 MHz
3800 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1280 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448GeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP210 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date29 Nov 2011vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    20.50 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    41.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    152.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    1312.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448
    5660
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790

Points (higher is better)