AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Compare AMD Radeon RX 480 8 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

2142 points

84% significantly better overall score

1159 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

27 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

45 FPS

27 FPS significantly 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4130 points

152% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1634 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

349.71 points

131% significantly higher Blender score

150.80 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

42415 points

535% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

44522 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

14647 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48947 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

14555 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

51028 points

665% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

6670 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

42732 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

15295 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49182 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16140 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1266 MHz

38% slightly higher core clock speed

915 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1266 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

224 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

Identical

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

40.51 Gigapixels/s

47% significantly higher pixel rate

27.44 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

182.3 Gigatexels/s

66% significantly higher texture rate

109.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.83 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

2.63 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

71% significantly more shading units

1344

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

28% slightly more texture mapping units

112

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

199th of 586

254th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

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

Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 480 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in our tests.

The Radeon RX 480 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 480 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 480 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the Radeon RX 480 and the GeForce GTX 660 Ti have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 480 over the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.