AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 HD 8650D IGP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 130 Watt

Launch date	28 December 2013 vs 22 August 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 130 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Around 14% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 720 MHz
Around 5% higher boost clock speed: 888 MHz vs 844 MHz
4.2x more texture fill rate: 85.25 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
3x more pipelines: 1152 vs 384
3.2x better floating-point performance: 2,046 gflops vs 648.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm

Core clock speed	823 MHz vs 720 MHz
Boost clock speed	888 MHz vs 844 MHz
Texture fill rate	85.25 GTexel / s vs 20.26 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1152 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,046 gflops vs 648.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	396
PassMark - G2D Mark	259
Geekbench - OpenCL	10204
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		32.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1021.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		56.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		67.697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8650D IGP	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 3	Kepler
Code name	Scrapper	GK104
Launch date	28 December 2013	22 August 2012
Place in performance rating	851	852
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	844 MHz	888 MHz
Core clock speed	720 MHz	823 MHz
Floating-point performance	648.2 gflops	2,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	32 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1152
Texture fill rate	20.26 GTexel / s	85.25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	1,303 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		241 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Memory type	System Shared	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount		1536 MB
Memory bandwidth		134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory clock speed		5600 MHz