GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R9 290X2
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 |
| 440 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 290X2 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 290X2 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 290X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 | | Radeon R9 290X2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK106 (GK106-400-A1) | vs | Hawaii (Hawaii XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 221 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,540 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 44 |
| Core clock | 980 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 24 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660 | | Radeon R9 290X2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 512 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1350 MHz
5400 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660 | | Radeon R9 290X2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 140 watts | vs | 580 watts |
| Release Date | 6 Sep 2012 | vs | 24 Jun 2014 |
GeForce GTX 660
19.60 GP/s
Radeon R9 290X2
128.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
78.40 GT/s
Radeon R9 290X2
352.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
144.00 GB/s
Radeon R9 290X2
692.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660
1882.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 290X2
11264.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better