Radeon E8950 vs GeForce GTX 660

Place in the ranking	434	364
Place by popularity	58	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.27	no data
Power efficiency	5.12	10.33
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	GK106	Amethyst
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	6 September 2012 (12 years ago)	29 September 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	960	2048
Core clock speed	980 MHz	735 MHz
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	2,540 million	5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	95 Watt
Texture fill rate	82.56	128.0
Floating-point processing power	1.981 TFLOPS	4.096 TFLOPS
ROPs	24	32
TMUs	80	128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	241 mm	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB/s	192.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort	No outputs
Multi monitor support	4 displays	no data
HDMI	+	-
HDCP	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray	+	-
3D Gaming	+	-
3D Vision	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

−27.7%

60−65
+27.7%

Cost per frame, $

1080p

4.87

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Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.36	14.17
Recency	6 September 2012	29 September 2015
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	95 Watt

Radeon E8950 has a 36.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 47.4% lower power consumption.

The Radeon E8950 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 660 is a desktop card while Radeon E8950 is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.