AMD Radeon R7 M260DX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 M260DX 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: 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 R7 M260DX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 835 MHz
  • 4.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 18010 vs 3984
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 October 2014 vs 22 March 2012
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 835 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 18010 vs 3984

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 940 MHz
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1094 vs 1047
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1094 vs 1047
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2253 vs 1019
  • 2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2253 vs 1019
  • Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3176 vs 2165
  • Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3176 vs 2165
  • Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 195
  • Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1434 vs 817
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 950 MHz vs 940 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1094 vs 1047
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094 vs 1047
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253 vs 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253 vs 1019
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176 vs 2165
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 vs 2165
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 vs 195
PassMark - G3D Mark 1434 vs 817

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 M260DX
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
18010
3984
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1047
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1047
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1019
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1019
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2165
3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2165
3176
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
195
266
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
817
1434
Name AMD Radeon R7 M260DX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Geekbench - OpenCL 18010 3984
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1047 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1047 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1019 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1019 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2165 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2165 3176
PassMark - G2D Mark 195 266
PassMark - G3D Mark 817 1434
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 R7 M260DX NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Kepler
Code name Topaz GK107
Launch date 12 October 2014 22 March 2012
Place in performance rating 1267 1271
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 940 MHz 950 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz 835 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Transistor count 3,100 million 1,270 million
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

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

Technologies

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