GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs Radeon R9 370

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R9 370 and GeForce GTX 660 OEM, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R9 370
2015
4 GB GDDR5, 110 Watt
12.26
+265%

R9 370 outperforms GTX 660 OEM by a whopping 265% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking404736
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.641.77
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameTrinidadGK104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)22 August 2012 (12 years ago)

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 cores12801152
Core clock speed925 MHz823 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz888 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate78.0085.25
Floating-point processing power2.496 TFLOPS2.046 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8096

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length221 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 GB/s179.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

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 HD45
+275%
12−14
−275%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 12.26 3.36
Recency 5 May 2015 22 August 2012
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 130 Watt

R9 370 has a 264.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 18.2% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 370 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 OEM in performance tests.


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