GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R9 280X

GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Radeon R9 280X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R9 280X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    124%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    144%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

100 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 280X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 280X

44% higher gaming performance.
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 280X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 280X

The Radeon R9 280X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (9 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 280X
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)vsTahiti (Tahiti XTL)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1344vs2048
Compute Units7vs32
Core clock915 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs112vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 280X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 280X
TDP150 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date16 Aug 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    109.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 280X
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 280X
    3482.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790
  • Radeon R9 280X
    10960

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    26
  • Radeon R9 280X
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    19
  • Radeon R9 280X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 280X
    48

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    29
  • Radeon R9 280X
    51

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    59
  • Radeon R9 280X
    69

FPS (higher is better)

Crysis 3

DX11,Very High Quality, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    37
  • Radeon R9 280X
    42

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    47
  • Radeon R9 280X
    69

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    43
  • Radeon R9 280X
    67

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    39
  • Radeon R9 280X
    50

FPS (higher is better)