Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D 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 Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4
- Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
- Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1033 MHz
- 673.5x more texture fill rate: 52.80 GTexel/s vs 78.4 billion / sec
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
- 9.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 140 Watt
- Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11991 vs 11364
- 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 79.859 vs 30.505
- Around 61% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1137.615 vs 705.293
- Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.569 vs 3.085
- Around 74% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 61.688 vs 35.416
- 3.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 192.566 vs 62.69
- Around 57% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 5609 vs 3581
- Around 57% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 5609 vs 3581
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 2 Sep 2020 vs 6 September 2012 |
| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz vs 1033 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 52.80 GTexel/s vs 78.4 billion / sec |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm vs 28 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 15 Watt vs 140 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 11991 vs 11364 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 79.859 vs 30.505 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1137.615 vs 705.293 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.569 vs 3.085 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 61.688 vs 35.416 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 192.566 vs 62.69 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 5609 vs 3581 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3708 vs 3690 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 5609 vs 3581 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3708 vs 3690 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- 3.3x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 300 MHz
- 2.5x more pipelines: 960 vs 384
- Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4017 vs 2666
- Around 27% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 487 vs 383
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Core clock speed | 980 MHz vs 300 MHz |
| Pipelines | 960 vs 384 |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 4017 vs 2666 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 487 vs 383 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3365 vs 3356 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3365 vs 3356 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
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| Name | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 2666 | 4017 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 383 | 487 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 11991 | 11364 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 79.859 | 30.505 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1137.615 | 705.293 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.569 | 3.085 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 61.688 | 35.416 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 192.566 | 62.69 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 5609 | 3581 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3708 | 3690 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3356 | 3365 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 5609 | 3581 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3708 | 3690 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3356 | 3365 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1307 |
Compare specifications (specs)
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| Architecture | Generation 12.0 | Kepler |
| Code name | Tiger Lake GT1 | GK106 |
| Launch date | 2 Sep 2020 | 6 September 2012 |
| Place in performance rating | 594 | 740 |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $229 | |
| Price now | $349.99 | |
| Value for money (0-100) | 14.35 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | 1033 MHz |
| Compute units | 48 | |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 980 MHz |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | 28 nm |
| Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance | 211.2 GFLOPS | |
| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 1.690 TFLOPS | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 844.8 GFLOPS | |
| Pipelines | 384 | 960 |
| Pixel fill rate | 13.20 GPixel/s | |
| Texture fill rate | 52.80 GTexel/s | 78.4 billion / sec |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 15 Watt | 140 Watt |
| CUDA cores | 960 | |
| Floating-point performance | 1,981 gflops | |
| Transistor count | 2,540 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
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| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x1 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Width | IGP | |
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Length | 9.5" (24.1 cm) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | One 6-pin | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.1 | 12.0 (11_0) |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
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Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | |
| Memory bandwidth | 144.2 GB / s | |
| Memory bus width | 192-bit GDDR5 | |
| Memory clock speed | 6.0 GB/s | |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Technologies |
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| 3D Vision | ||
| Adaptive VSync | ||
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| SLI | ||
| TXAA | ||
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