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    GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs Radeon R7 260X

    GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 22 Aug 2012
    GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    Radeon R7 260X
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 8 Oct 2013
    Radeon R7 260X
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      108%
    • Radeon R7 260X
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 OEM

    Around 8% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 660 OEM

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 660 OEMRadeon R7 260X
    GPU NameGK104 (GK104-200-KD-A2)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size294 mm²vs160 mm²
    Transistors3,540 millionvs2,080 million
    Shaders1152vs896
    Compute Units6vs14
    Core clock823 MHzvs1100 MHz
    ROPs24vs16
    TMUs96vs56

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 660 OEMRadeon R7 260X
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1400 MHz
    5600 MHz effective    		vs1625 MHz
    6500 MHz effective
    Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 660 OEMRadeon R7 260X
    TDP130 wattsvs115 watts
    Release Date22 Aug 2012vs8 Oct 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      19.80 GP/s
    • Radeon R7 260X
      17.60 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      79.00 GT/s
    • Radeon R7 260X
      61.60 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      134.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R7 260X
      104.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      1896.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R7 260X
      1971.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
      6800
    • Radeon R7 260X
      6260

    Points (higher is better)

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