NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
14.4x more pipelines: 1152 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm

Launch date	22 August 2012 vs 8 January 2009
Pipelines	1152 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	32.718
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1021.371
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.143
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	56.509
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	67.697
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5983
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3665
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3325
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0
PassMark - G3D Mark		94
PassMark - G2D Mark		206

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	RV6xx
Code name	GK104	M82-XT + RS780M
Launch date	22 August 2012	8 January 2009
Place in performance rating	845	848
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	888 MHz
Core clock speed	823 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	1152	80
Texture fill rate	85.25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	130 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	362 Million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	5600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2 / GDDR3
Shared memory		0