NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 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

325 points
816 points
151% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS
18 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS
11 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS
13 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS
9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.07 points
122.56 points
126% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

6443 points
8583 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
5449 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6300 points
11381 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6087 points
10693 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2777 points
4311 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6165 points
11353 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5513 points
11858 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

28.8 GB/s
144.2 GB/s
400% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

55 W
154% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16.53 Gigapixels/s
20.64 Gigapixels/s
24% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

24.79 Gigatexels/s
82.56 Gigatexels/s
233% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
960
150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
80
233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
24
49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 586
276th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 745 vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 660 beats the GeForce GTX 745 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 745 has a significantly lower TDP at 55 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the GeForce GTX 745.

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