GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R7 260

GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 660
    123%
  • Radeon R7 260
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

23% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon R7 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 260
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-400-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders960vs768
Compute Units5vs12
Core clock980 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660Radeon R7 260
TDP140 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date6 Sep 2012vs17 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 660
    37
  • Radeon R7 260
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 660
    25
  • Radeon R7 260
    21

FPS (higher is better)