NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7480D

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 7480D 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), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 7480D

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 55% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 614 MHz
3x more pipelines: 384 vs 128
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
5.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 348
2.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1235
3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 1704

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 26 September 2012
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 614 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 128
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 32 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1848 vs 348
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2690 vs 1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5125 vs 1704

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7480D

11.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 348 vs 31.3
28.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1235 vs 43.4
18.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1704 vs 91.5

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	348 vs 31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1235 vs 43.4
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1704 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7480D

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1848

348

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2690

1235

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

5125

1704

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

31.3

348

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

43.4

1235

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

91.5

1704

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 7480D
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	11.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	301.554
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	16.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	16.56
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1848	348
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2690	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5125	1704
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	31.3	348
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	43.4	1235
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	91.5	1704
Geekbench - OpenCL		694
PassMark - G2D Mark		119
PassMark - G3D Mark		281

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 7480D
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Terascale 3
Code name	GK107	Trinity
Launch date	1 April 2013	26 September 2012
Place in performance rating	1498	1499
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	614 MHz
Floating-point performance	729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	32 nm
Pipelines	384	128
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million
Boost clock speed		724 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1