GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R5 240 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 240 OEM

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R5 240 OEM
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders960vs320
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock980 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs24vs8
TMUs80vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R5 240 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R5 240 OEM
TDP140 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 240 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better