GeForce GTX 660 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 660 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 660
4119
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 660
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK106
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2012
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1033 MHz
-
Core clock speed
980 MHz
-
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
160
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
10.67 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
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.3
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-