GeForce GTX 660
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 600 series · launched September 2012
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GTX 660 launched at $229 in 2012. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $330 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 44% rise over 14 years. At its launch price that is 50 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2012 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 115 (middle half of runs 109–122) across 15 community runs on Blender 4.x with the CUDA backend. That is #97 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 600 series |
| Launched | September 2012 |
| Launch price | $229 |
| Architecture | Kepler |
| Chip | GK106-400-A1 |
| Memory | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 192-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 144.2 GB/s |
| Core clock | 980 MHz (boost 1,032 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 1.59 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 140 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 2.5 billion |
| Die size | 221 mm² |
| Process | 28 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Tier | 60-class |
The Nvidia 60-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 460 SE | 2010 | $160 | $243 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 Ti | 2011 | $249 | $366 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 Ti X2 | 2011 | $519 | $764 | — |
| GeForce GTX 460 X2 | 2011 | $350 | $515 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 | 2011 | $199 | $293 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 | 2011 | $289 | $425 | — |
| GeForce GTX 560 SE | 2012 | $149 | $215 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti | 2012 | $299 | $431 | — |
| GeForce GTX 660 | 2012 | $229 | $330 | 115 |
| GeForce GTX 760 | 2013 | $219 | $311 | 156 |
| GeForce GTX 760 X2 | 2013 | $600 | $852 | — |
| GeForce GTX 960 | 2015 | $199 | $278 | 161 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 | 2016 | $199 | $274 | 356 |
| GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB | 2018 | $299 | $394 | 364 |
| GeForce RTX 2060 | 2019 | $349 | $452 | 1,542 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 2019 | $279 | $361 | 759 |
Compare with
- GeForce GTX 660 Ti · 2012 · $299
- GeForce GTX 460 V2 · 2011 · $199
- GeForce GTX 560 · 2011 · $199
- GeForce GTX 560 Ti · 2011 · $249
- GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 · 2011 · $289
- GeForce GTX 760 · 2013 · $219 · 156
- Radeon HD 7850 · 2012 · $250
- Radeon HD 7870 XT · 2012 · $270
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