Comparison of MSI GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 960

Attribute	GeForce GTX 960 ×	MSI GeForce GTX 660 ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2015	2012
Reference card	-	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 980 MHz 2 GB
GPU brand	Nvidia	Nvidia
GPU name	GM206	GK106
Market	Desktop	Desktop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,127	1,032
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,178	1,098
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 960	MSI GeForce GTX 660
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	112.2	144.2
Memory bus (bit)	128	192
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,753	1,502
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	7,012	6,008
Noise and power
TDP (W)	120	140
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	36.1	20.64
SMX units	-	5
Render output processors	32	24
Texture mapping units	64	80
Shading units	1,024	960
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	2,308	1,981
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	72.1	82.6
Benchmarks
Metro: Last Light	-	50
FarCry 3	-	80
Battlefield 3	-	50
Bioshock Infinite	-	57
Cloud Gate Factor	20.16	19.42
Battlefield 4	58	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	69.13	-
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	111.95	-
Sky Diver Factor	358.69	306.05
Thief	50.6	55
Fire Strike Factor	57.4	44.27
Ocean surface simulation (frames/s)	780.9	-