NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 and NVIDIA GeForce 800M 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 738 MHz
  • 14x more texture fill rate: 82.56 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
  • 20x more pipelines: 960 vs 48
  • 14x better floating-point performance: 1,981 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 39.216 vs 4.91
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2014 vs 17 March 2014
Core clock speed 980 MHz vs 738 MHz
Texture fill rate 82.56 GTexel / s vs 5.904 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 48
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops vs 141.7 gflops
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.216 vs 4.91

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 800M

  • 9.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 140 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 140 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 800M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
39.216
4.91
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce 800M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.216 4.91
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.173
PassMark - G3D Mark 477
PassMark - G2D Mark 195
Geekbench - OpenCL 1303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 109.13
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 7.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 15.218
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 703
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1601
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 703
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1601

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce 800M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Fermi 2.0
Code name GK104 GF117
Launch date 13 September 2014 17 March 2014
Place in performance rating 1510 1511
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1032 MHz
Core clock speed 980 MHz 738 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,981 gflops 141.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 960 48
Texture fill rate 82.56 GTexel / s 5.904 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt 15 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 585 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin
Bus support PCI Express 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 144.2 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3

Technologies

CUDA
GameWorks
GPU Boost
Optimus