GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon R9 380X

GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Radeon R9 380X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 19 Nov 2015
Radeon R9 380X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    152%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    167%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 380X

67% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 380X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380X

The Radeon R9 380X is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (4 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 380X
GPU NameGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)vsAntigua (Antigua XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1344vs2048
Compute Units7vs32
Core clock915 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs112vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 380X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1425 MHz
5700 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660 TiRadeon R9 380X
TDP150 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date16 Aug 2012vs19 Nov 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    124.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380X
    182.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380X
    3973.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790
  • Radeon R9 380X
    13410

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    26
  • Radeon R9 380X
    43

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    19
  • Radeon R9 380X
    30

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    36
  • Radeon R9 380X
    56

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    29
  • Radeon R9 380X
    56

FPS (higher is better)