AMD Radeon 660M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 660M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Video outputs and ports, 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 660M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 660M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1096 MHz
Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1900 MHz vs 1176 MHz
969.4x more texture fill rate: 45.60 GTexel/s vs 47.04 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 28 nm
5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Around 22% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 13432 vs 10985

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 Jan 2022 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1096 MHz
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz vs 1176 MHz
Texture fill rate	45.60 GTexel/s vs 47.04 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	13432 vs 10985

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384

Pipelines	640 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 660M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

13432

10985

Name	AMD Radeon 660M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Geekbench - OpenCL	13432	10985
PassMark - G3D Mark		3366
PassMark - G2D Mark		245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1231

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 660M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Maxwell
Code name	Rembrandt	GM107
Launch date	4 Jan 2022	13 March 2015
Place in performance rating	1349	735
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1900 MHz	1176 MHz
Compute units	6
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1096 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	91.20 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	2.918 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1459 GFLOPS
Pipelines	384	640
Pixel fill rate	30.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	45.60 GTexel/s	47.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	13100 million	1,870 million
CUDA cores		640
Floating-point performance		1,505 gflops
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.2	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support		1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		80 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		2500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI