NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs Intel HD Graphics 4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and Intel HD Graphics 4000 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 - 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
• Around 46% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 650 MHz
• 7.2x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 4.2 GTexel / s
• 24x more pipelines: 384 vs 16
• 21.7x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 33.6 gflops
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 8.712
• Around 94% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 155.638
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 16.08 vs 7.36
• Around 38% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 16.56 vs 12.009
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 754
• Around 80% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1492
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 2392

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 4000

• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 22 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 11% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 50 Watt
• Around 19% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.931 vs 0.785
• 24.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 754 vs 31.3
• 34.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1492 vs 43.4
• 26.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2392 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 4000

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.245 8.712
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	301.554 155.638
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.785 0.931
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.08 7.36
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.56 12.009
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1848 754
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1492
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 2392
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.3 754
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	43.4 1492
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 2392

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