AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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), 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).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 68% higher boost clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 950 MHz
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1069 vs 475
2.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11203 vs 4062

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 Jan 2020 vs 22 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz vs 950 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069 vs 475
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203 vs 4062

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 7
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1069

475

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

11203

4062

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1069	475
Geekbench - OpenCL	11203	4062
PassMark - G3D Mark		1445
PassMark - G2D Mark		269
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK107
Launch date	7 Jan 2020	22 March 2012
Place in performance rating	1317	1253
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	448	384
Core clock speed		835 MHz
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
API support
DirectX	12.1	12 API
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
SLI options		2-way
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