GeForce GTX 660 and Radeon HD 7870 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
GeForce GTX 660
4119
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GK106
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2012
November 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1033 MHz
975 MHz
Core clock speed
980 MHz
925 MHz
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
2,995 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
185 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
93.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.3
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-