AMD Radeon HD 8650G vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650G and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3176
  • Around 6% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3176
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 May 2013 vs 22 March 2012
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3176

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 533 MHz
  • Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 720 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
  • 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4031 vs 1731
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1094 vs 736
  • Around 49% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1094 vs 736
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2253 vs 2062
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2253 vs 2062
  • Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 139
  • 2.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1449 vs 523
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 533 MHz
Boost clock speed 950 MHz vs 720 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 4031 vs 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1094 vs 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094 vs 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253 vs 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253 vs 2062
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 vs 139
PassMark - G3D Mark 1449 vs 523

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650G
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1731
4031
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
736
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
736
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2062
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2062
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3176
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
139
265
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
523
1449
Name AMD Radeon HD 8650G NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Geekbench - OpenCL 1731 4031
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 736 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 736 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2062 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2062 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 3176
PassMark - G2D Mark 139 265
PassMark - G3D Mark 523 1449
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 405.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.098
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 33.754
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8650G NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 3 Kepler
Code name Richland GK107
Launch date 1 May 2013 22 March 2012
Place in performance rating 1276 1277
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 720 MHz 950 MHz
Core clock speed 533 MHz 835 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 32 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 384 384
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11 12 API
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5

Memory

Shared memory 1 0
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA