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Radeon R9 270X and GeForce GTX 660 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 270X vs GeForce GTX 660

Radeon R9 270X
5036
GeForce GTX 660
4119

Radeon R9 270X

GeForce GTX 660


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name
Curacao XT
GK106

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
October 2013
September 2012

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2 x 6-pin
One 6-pin

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1050 MHz
1033 MHz

Core clock speed
-
980 MHz

CUDA cores
-
960

Floating-point performance
2,688 gflops
1,981 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
960

Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
140 Watt

Texture fill rate
84.00
78.4 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
192-bit GDDR5

Memory clock speed
-
6.0 GB/s

Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s
144.2 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort

Multi monitor support
-
4 displays

Eyefinity
+
-

HDMI
+
+

HDCP
-
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.3

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
+
1.1.126

3D Blu-Ray
-
+

3D Gaming
-
+

3D Vision
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-