Radeon E8950 and GeForce GTX 660 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Amethyst
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
August 2012
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
888 MHz
Core clock speed
735 MHz
823 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
2,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
85.25
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126