GeForce GTX 660 Overview

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Core Configuration

GPU GK106
Architecture Nvidia_Kepler
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 960 : 80 : 24
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1882.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 192 bit
Memory Speed 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 144.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
    550%
  • Geforce GTX TITAN Xp
    545%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    521%
  • GeForce RTX 2080
    519%
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    517%
  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    503%
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT
    471%
  • GeForce RTX 2070
    456%
  • GeForce RTX 2060 Super
    454%
  • Radeon VII
    449%
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    442%
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    422%
  • Radeon RX 5700
    412%
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    407%
  • GeForce RTX 2060
    376%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    373%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    363%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    355%
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
    352%
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    326%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    324%
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    304%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    277%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    264%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    257%
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    247%
  • Radeon RX 580
    242%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    240%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    236%
  • Radeon RX 480
    231%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    228%
  • Radeon RX 570
    222%
  • Radeon R9 290
    218%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    216%
  • Radeon RX 470
    204%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    204%
  • GeForce GTX 1650
    202%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    195%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    185%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    179%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    178%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    173%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    166%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    165%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    165%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    160%
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    156%
  • Radeon R9 380
    152%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    150%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    145%
  • Radeon R9 285
    142%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    136%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    124%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    122%
  • Radeon RX 460
    122%
  • Radeon R7 370
    120%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    112%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    91%
  • Radeon R7 260
    81%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 660 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 6 Sep 2012. The graphics card houses the GK106 die, based on the Nvidia_Kepler architecture which packs 2,540 million transistors on a 28 nm, 221 mm2 die.

GeForce GTX 660 pros and cons

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



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R7 260Radeon R9 270X
GeForce GTX 660GeForce GTX 750 TiRadeon R7 260Radeon R9 270X
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Shader units9606407681280
ROPs24161632
Graphics processorGK106GM107BonaireCuracao
Process size28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width192 bit128 bit128 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth144.00 Gb/s86.40 Gb/s96.00 Gb/s179.00 Gb/s
Release date6 Sep 201218 Feb 201417 Dec 20138 Oct 2013

Benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

  • Radeon R9 270X
    42
  • GeForce GTX 660
    37
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    34
  • Radeon R7 260
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

  • Radeon R9 270X
    28
  • GeForce GTX 660
    25
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    23
  • Radeon R7 260
    21

FPS (higher is better)