NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 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

1419 points

22% slightly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

29 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

22 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

20 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

18 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

17 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2293 points

40% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

167.72 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17784 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11298 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21072 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

22380 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

8773 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

19796 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

20845 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1127 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1178 MHz

20% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

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

112.2 GB/s

144.2 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

37.7 Gigapixels/s

37% slightly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

75.39 Gigatexels/s

109.8 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.41 TFLOPS

2.63 TFLOPS

9% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

1344

31% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

75% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 586

254th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 960 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 GeForce GTX 960 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 960 has slightly more memory with 4 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 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 Ti at 150 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960 is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.