NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 GK104 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
            NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 GK104
            
                
            
        
    
            AMD Radeon HD 6950
            
                $259
            
        
    | 1152 Shaders 2GB GDDR5 899MHz | 1408 Shaders 2GB GDDR5 800MHz | 
| Peak AI Performance 2.07 TOPS INT32 | Peak AI Performance 2.25 TFLOPS FP32 | 
| FP32 2.07 TFLOPS | FP32 2.25 TFLOPS | 
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| Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | Form Factor PCIe Card 2.0-Slots | 
| TDP 130W | TDP 200W | 
| Power Connectors 1x 6-Pin - - - | Power Connectors 2x 6-Pin - - - | 
| GB6 OpenCL N/A 0% | |
| GB6 Metal N/A 0% | GB6 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB6 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | GB5 OpenCL N/A 0% | 
| GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | GB5 CUDA N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Metal N/A 0% | GB5 Metal N/A 0% | 
| GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | GB5 Vulkan N/A 0% | 
| OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | OCT 2020.1 N/A 0% | 
| OCT Metal N/A 0% | OCT Metal N/A 0% | 
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| Pixel
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                                            21.576 GPixel/s
                                         | Pixel
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                                            25.6 GPixel/s
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| Texture
                                            Fillrate 
                                            86.304 GTexel/s
                                         | Texture
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                                            70.4 GTexel/s
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| ManufacturerNVIDIA | ManufacturerAMD | 
| Chip DesignerNVIDIA | Chip DesignerAMD | 
| ArchitectureKepler | ArchitectureTeraScale 3 | 
| FamilyGeForce 600 | FamilyRadeon HD 6000 | 
| Codename NVE4 GK104 Variant GK104-200-KD-A2 | Codename Cayman RV970 Variant Cayman Pro | 
| Market Segment Desktop | Market Segment Desktop | 
| Release Date 8/22/2012 | Release Date 12/15/2010 | 
| Foundry TSMC - | Foundry TSMC - | 
| Fabrication Node 28nm - | Fabrication Node 40nm - | 
| Die Size 294 mm² - | Die Size 389 mm² - | 
| Transistor Count 3.5 Billion - | Transistor Count 2.6 Billion - | 
| Transistor Density 12.04M/mm² - | Transistor Density 6.79M/mm² - | 
| Form PCIe Card | Form PCIe Card | 
| Shading Units 1152 Shaders - | Shading Units 1408 Shaders - | 
| Texture Mapping Units 96 TMUs | Texture Mapping Units 88 TMUs | 
| Render Output Units 24 ROPs | Render Output Units 32 ROPs | 
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| Streaming Multiprocessors 6 SMs | - - | 
| - - | Compute Units 22 CUs | 
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| - - 824MHz Base 899MHz | - - - 800MHz | 
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| L1 48KB/SM Tex 16KB/SM - - | L1 - - 8KB/CU - | 
| L2 512KB Shared | L2 512KB Shared | 
| - - - | - - - | 
| 2GB GDDR5 - | 2GB GDDR5 - | 
| Bus Width 192Bit | Bus Width 256Bit | 
| Clock 1450MHz Transfer Rate 5.8GT/s Bandwidth 139.2GB/s | Clock 1250MHz Transfer Rate 5GT/s Bandwidth 160GB/s | 
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| TDP 130W | TDP 200W | 
| - - | - - | 
| - - - - - - - - 1x DVI-I Dual-Link - 1x DVI-D Dual-Link - - - - - - - - - - - 1x DisplayPort 1.2 - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 1.4 - - - - | - - - - - - - - 2x DVI-I Dual-Link - - - - - 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1x HDMI 1.3 - - - - - | 
| Max Resolution 4096x2304 | Max Resolution 2560x1600 | 
| Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | Max Resolution Refresh Rate 60Hz | 
| Variable Refresh Rate G-Sync FreeSync - | Variable Refresh Rate - - - | 
| Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | Display Stream Compression (DSC) Not Supported | 
| Multi Monitor Support 3 | Multi Monitor Support 3 | 
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| Model NVENC 1 | No Encoders - | 
| Codec - - - - - - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 
| Model NVDEC 1 | Model UVD 3.1 | 
| Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 - VC-1 - - - AVC (H.264) - - - - - | 
| Direct X 12 Direct 3D 11_0 | Direct X 11 Direct 3D 11_0 | 
| OpenGL 4.6 OpenCL 3.0 Vulkan 1.2 | OpenGL 4.5 OpenCL 1.2 - - | 
| Shader Model 6.5 CUDA 3.0 - - PureVideo HD VP5 VDPAU Feature Set D | Shader Model 5.0 - - GFX 5 - - - - | 
| - - - 1x Fan | - - - 1x Fan | 
| Power Connectors - - 1x 6-Pin - - - - | Power Connectors - - 2x 6-Pin - - - - | 
| Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 3.0 PCIe Lanes 16 | Slots Required 2.0 PCIe Version 2.1 PCIe Lanes 16 | 
| Multi GPU Support Supported Type 2-way SLI | Multi GPU Support Supported Type 4-way CrossFireX | 
| Height 111 mm (4.37 in) Width 241 mm (9.49 in) Depth 38 mm (1.5 in) | Height 126 mm (4.96 in) Width 286 mm (11.26 in) Depth 42 mm (1.65 in) | 
 
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
                             
                                 
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