NVIDIA GRID K180Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K180Q 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K180Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 835 MHz
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1201 vs 1094
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1201 vs 1094
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 28 June 2013 vs 22 March 2012
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 835 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1201 vs 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1201 vs 1094

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
  • 2.2x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
  • 2.6x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
  • 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1454 vs 534
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 268 vs 113
  • Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2253 vs 1744
  • Around 29% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2253 vs 1744
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3176 vs 2688
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3176 vs 2688
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 192
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 130 Watt
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1454 vs 534
PassMark - G2D Mark 268 vs 113
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253 vs 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253 vs 1744
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176 vs 2688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 vs 2688

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K180Q
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
534
1454
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
113
268
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1201
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1201
1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1744
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1744
2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2688
3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2688
3176
Name NVIDIA GRID K180Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
PassMark - G3D Mark 534 1454
PassMark - G2D Mark 113 268
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1201 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1201 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1744 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1744 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2688 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2688 3176
Geekbench - OpenCL 4041
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)

NVIDIA GRID K180Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Kepler
Code name GK107 GK107
Launch date 28 June 2013 22 March 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $125
Place in performance rating 1264 1267
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 835 MHz
Floating-point performance 326.4 gflops 729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 192 384
Texture fill rate 13.6 GTexel / s 30.4 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 1,270 million
Boost clock speed 950 MHz
CUDA cores 384

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 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 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.51 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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