GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 6930

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon HD 6930
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Dec 2011
Radeon HD 6930

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

46 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6930 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 HD 6930

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 6930
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsCayman (Cayman CE)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders960vs1280
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock980 MHzvs750 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 6930
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 6930
TDP140 wattsvs186 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs1 Dec 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    24.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    60.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6930
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6930
    1920.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better