GeForce GTX 660 and Radeon 530X - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon 530X
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK106
Meso
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2012
April 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1033 MHz
1021 MHz
Core clock speed
980 MHz
730 MHz
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
784.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
24.50
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.3
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-