GeForce GTX 660 and Radeon 540 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon 540
GeForce GTX 660
4119
Radeon 540
1420
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon 540
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
GK106
Lexa
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
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
980 MHz
1183 MHz
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
28.39
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
32 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-