Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 1033 MHz
1346.9x more texture fill rate: 105.6 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

Launch date	2 Sep 2020 vs 6 September 2012
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 1033 MHz
Texture fill rate	105.6 GTexel/s vs 78.4 billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 140 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

3.3x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 960 vs 768
9.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1307 vs 142

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	960 vs 768
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1307 vs 142

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

142

1307

Name	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	142	1307
PassMark - G3D Mark		4017
PassMark - G2D Mark		487
Geekbench - OpenCL		11364
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3365

Compare specifications (specs)

	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EU	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Essentials
Architecture	Generation 12.0	Kepler
Code name	Tiger Lake GT2	GK106
Launch date	2 Sep 2020	6 September 2012
Place in performance rating	1698	740
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$349.99
Value for money (0-100)		14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	1033 MHz
Compute units	96
Core clock speed	300 MHz	980 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	10 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	422.4 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.379 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.690 TFLOPS
Pipelines	768	960
Pixel fill rate	26.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	105.6 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
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
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
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
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
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
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA