NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 9.5x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
  • 48x more pipelines: 384 vs 8
  • 57x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
  • 6.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 9.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 542
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 April 2013 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 8
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5125 vs 542

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 50 Watt
  • 5.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 542 vs 91.5
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 542 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5125
542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
91.5
542
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 5125 542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 43.4
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 91.5 542
PassMark - G3D Mark 105
PassMark - G2D Mark 124

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G86
Launch date 1 April 2013 9 May 2007
Place in performance rating 1504 1501
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 950 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 384 8
Texture fill rate 30.4 GTexel / s 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 80 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3 / GDDR2
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0