Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

Radeon RX 460
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 460
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Sep 2014
GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 460
    118%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 18% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 460

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460

The Radeon RX 460 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin PRO)vsGK104 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders896vs960
Compute Units14vs5
Core clock1090 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs56vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 460GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
TDP75 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs13 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    19.90 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 460
    67.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    79.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 460
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 460
    2150.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    1907.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 460
    8080
  • GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
    6800

Points (higher is better)