GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2013
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660
    117%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660
    110%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

10% higher gaming 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-240-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders960vs768
Compute Units5vs4
Core clock980 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs24vs24
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
TDP140 wattsvs134 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs26 Mar 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    15.70 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    62.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    1505.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    5800

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 660
    31
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    27

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • GeForce GTX 660
    27
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    25

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 660
    50
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    45

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • GeForce GTX 660
    42
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    38

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 660
    39
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • GeForce GTX 660
    32
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    28

FPS (higher is better)