How good is a GeForce 660?

“The GeForce GTX 660 Ti is efficient and compact, and it offers very good performance at its price. If you’re a serious PC gamer with a limited budget, and if you have been making do with a two-year-old card, it’s time to think seriously about upgrading.”

When did GTX 660 come out?

The GeForce GTX 660 was a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on September 6th, 2012. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the GK106 graphics processor, in its GK106-400-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12.

How many GB is Nvidia GTX 660?

ZOTAC NVIDIA GTX660 192-bit 2 GB DDR5 Graphics Card.

What’s the difference between the GTX 660 and GK106?

If you have seen the other Kepler block diagrams in previous reviews you will immediately recognize that the GK106 GPU is significantly smaller than GK104. The GTX 660 GPU consists of 960 CUDA cores, a drop from the 1344 cores found in the GTX 660 Ti. Texture units on the GPU drops from 112 to 80 on the lower cost product.

Which is the highest performing vehicle in GK106?

As GK106’s launch vehicle, GTX 660 will be the highest performing implementation of GK106 that we expect to see.

What are the specs of the Nvidia GK106 GPU?

With a die size of 221 mm² and a transistor count of 2,540 million it is a medium-sized chip. GK106 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 11_0). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 3.0 and CUDA 3.0 can be used. It features 960 shading units, 80 texture mapping units and 32 ROPs.

How many ROPs are in the GK106 GPC?

A fully enabled GK106 in turn is composed of 5 SMXes – arranged in an asymmetric 3 GPC configuration – along with 24 ROPs, 3 64bit memory controllers, and 384KB of L2 cache. Design-wise this basically splits the difference between the 8 SMX + 32 ROP GK104 and the 2 SMX + 16 ROP GK107.