AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 980 MHz
Around 84% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1033 MHz
193.9x more texture fill rate: 15.20 GTexel/s vs 78.4 billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
9.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 140 Watt

Launch date	20 Sep 2022 vs 6 September 2012
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 980 MHz
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1033 MHz
Texture fill rate	15.20 GTexel/s vs 78.4 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 140 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

7.5x more pipelines: 960 vs 128
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11364 vs 5090

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	960 vs 128
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	11364 vs 5090

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

5090

11364

Name	AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Geekbench - OpenCL	5090	11364
PassMark - G3D Mark		4017
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3365
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1307

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 610M (Mendocino)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Mendocino	GK106
Launch date	20 Sep 2022	6 September 2012
Place in performance rating	1643	740
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$349.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1033 MHz
Compute units	2
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	30.40 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	972.8 GFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	486.4 GFLOPS
Pipelines	128	960
Pixel fill rate	7.600 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	15.20 GTexel/s	78.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	140 Watt
CUDA cores		960
Floating-point performance		1,981 gflops
Transistor count		2,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	One 6-pin
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length		9.5" (24.1 cm)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	System Dependent	144.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	System Shared	192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed	System Shared	6.0 GB/s
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA