AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Launch date 21 December 2013 vs 22 March 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 775 MHz
  • 4.9x more texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 6.2 GTexel / s
  • 2.4x more pipelines: 384 vs 160
  • 2.9x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 164
  • 4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1447 vs 336
  • 5.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4028 vs 782
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 6.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 160
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops vs 248.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 vs 164
PassMark - G3D Mark 1447 vs 336
Geekbench - OpenCL 4028 vs 782

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
164
265
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
336
1447
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
782
4028
Name AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
PassMark - G2D Mark 164 265
PassMark - G3D Mark 336 1447
Geekbench - OpenCL 782 4028
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Code name Caicos GK107
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date 21 December 2013 22 March 2012
Place in performance rating 1274 1277
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 775 MHz 835 MHz
Floating-point performance 248.0 gflops 729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 160 384
Texture fill rate 6.2 GTexel / s 30.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 1,270 million
Boost clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 384

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11 12 API
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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