NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Benchmark

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 GPU benchmark and specs - 3 GB NVIDIA Graphics card rating. How good is the GeForce GTX 660 for gaming?

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GPU Benchmark Score

8 %

Bad score from 11 samples
Low uncertainty

Performance

Bad

Ranking

208th of 531

Popularity

58th of 531

Samples

11 benchmarks

GPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this graphics card in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

hardwareDB Benchmark

All tests were performed at 1920 x 1080 resolution

Flux Core

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

38 FPS average

26 FPS 10% low

23 FPS 1% low

Electron

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS average

23 FPS 10% low

20 FPS 1% low

City

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS average

20 FPS 10% low

19 FPS 1% low

Clouds

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS average

17 FPS 10% low

18 FPS 1% low

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Geekbench (CUDA)

CUDA compute benchmark

8,583

Geekbench (Metal)

Metal compute benchmark

5,449

Geekbench (OpenCL)

OpenCL compute benchmark

11,381

Geekbench (Vulkan)

Vulkan compute benchmark

10,693

3DMark Graphics

High-end graphics benchmark

1,312

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GPU Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more GPUs with our GPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Iris Xe	10 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	8 %
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST	6 %
NVIDIA GeForce 920MX	2 %
NVIDIA GeForce GT 730	2 %
Intel UHD 630	2 %
NVIDIA GeForce GT 630	1 %

Specifications

Core Clock	980 MHz
Boost Clock	1032 MHz
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Size	3 GiB
Bus Width	192 bit
Memory Bandwidth	140.82 GB/s
TDP	140 W
Floating Point Performance	1.98 TFLOP/s
PCIe Revision	3.0
DirectX Support	11
OpenGL Support	4.5
Pixel Rate	20.64 Gigapixels/s
Texture Rate	82.56 Gigatexels/s
Shading Units	960
Texture Mapping Units	80
Render Output Processors	24

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Thanks to our GPU Benchmark, we have measured the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 as a bad gaming performer a score of 8%.

The GeForce GTX 660 has 3 GiB of GDDR5 memory, with a total memory bandwidth of 140 GB/s. The memory bus has a width of 192 bits. More memory is beneficial when gaming at high resolutions as the memory needs to store the frame buffer and all the game textures. If you run out of memory, you will experience poor performance as the GPU needs to swap data in and out of the memory as it is used.

In terms of clock speed, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU core runs at a frequency of 980 MHz and if power and temperature permits, it can boost up to 1032 MHz. A clock speed is the frequency at which the GPU updates. A higher speed means more processing can happen per cycle. This is useful only when comparing cards of the same generation, as other architectures may process more or less per clock.

As for rendering API support, the GeForce GTX 660 supports up to DirectX 11. In addition, in cross-platform titles, OpenGL 4.5 features are supported. Higher level APIs such as DirectX 12 give more control to the game developer and can allow them to improve the graphics and performance.

Power and thermals for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 140 watts. This measures the amount of heat the GPU produces when running at 100%. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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