GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8860 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 8860 OEM
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders960vs1280
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock980 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660Radeon HD 8860 OEM
TDP140 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    74.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    2368.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better