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.

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

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: 1449 vs 336
5.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4031 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	1449 vs 336
Geekbench - OpenCL	4031 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

1449

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

4031

Name	AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
PassMark - G2D Mark	164	265
PassMark - G3D Mark	336	1449
Geekbench - OpenCL	782	4031
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