AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
AMD Cayman
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
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TeraScale 3
Architecture
Kepler
Cayman
Code name
GK104
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
22 August 2012 (9 years ago)
$17.44
Price now
$481
Cayman
GPU code name
GK104
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1536
Pipelines
1152
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Core clock speed
823 MHz
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Boost Clock
888 MHz
2,640 million
Transistor count
3,540 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
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Texture fill rate
85.25
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Floating-point performance
2,046 gflops
1536
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1152
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Boost clock speed
888 MHz
2,640 million
Number of transistors
3,540 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
130 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
241 mm
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
5600 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
179.2 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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HDMI
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cayman and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cayman
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cayman

Cheaper ($17.44 vs $481)

More pipelines (1536 vs 1152)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

0.08% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cayman or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM .

AMD Cayman versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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