NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

4933 points

504% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

114 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

65 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

78 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

49 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1317 points

7843 points

495% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

2173.35 points

1673% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

94250 points

998% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

85184 points

648% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

66795 points

524% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

84977 points

648% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

79052 points

566% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

1005 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

1545 MHz

49% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s

416 GB/s

188% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

14% slightly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

98.88 Gigapixels/s

379% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

222.5 Gigatexels/s

169% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.98 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

259% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

2304

139% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

79% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 586

103rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 660 vs Quadro RTX 4000 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Quadro RTX 4000 beats the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Quadro RTX 4000 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Quadro RTX 4000 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro RTX 4000 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 has a slightly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Quadro RTX 4000 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 4000 is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.