NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• 5.1x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 6.0 billion / sec
• 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
• 3.8x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 192 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 6.3x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 4.329
• Around 86% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 162.162
• Around 84% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.785 vs 0.426
• Around 35% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 16.56 vs 12.306
• 2.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 737
• Around 55% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1731
• Around 76% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 2906

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

• Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 950 MHz
• 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 23.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 737 vs 31.3
• 39.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1731 vs 43.4
• 31.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2906 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.245 4.329
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	301.554 162.162
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.785 0.426
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.56 12.306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1848 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 2906
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.3 737
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	43.4 1731
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 2906

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