NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 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 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 2.7x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 11.2 billion / sec
• 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
• 2.7x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 268.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 5.6x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 800 - 900 MHz (1600 - 1800 data rate)
• 3.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 3.396
• 3.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 87.094
• 3.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.785 vs 0.243
• 3.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 16.08 vs 5.005
• 4.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 16.56 vs 3.764
• Around 71% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 1080
• Around 57% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1713
• 3.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 1624

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

• Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 950 MHz
• Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• 34.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1080 vs 31.3
• 39.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1713 vs 43.4
• 17.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1624 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.245 3.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	301.554 87.094
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.785 0.243
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.08 5.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.56 3.764
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1848 1080
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 1624
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.3 1080
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	43.4 1713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 1624

Compare specifications (specs)