NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 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) 2 month(s) later
• Around 41% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 672 MHz
• 2.8x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 billion / sec
• 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
• 2.8x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 258.05 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 900 MHz
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 4.85
• Around 54% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 195.796
• Around 40% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.785 vs 0.561
• Around 77% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 16.08 vs 9.109
• Around 93% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 960
• Around 22% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 2210
• Around 90% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 2701

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

• Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 1% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 16.727 vs 16.56
• 30.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 960 vs 31.3
• 50.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2210 vs 43.4
• 29.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2701 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.245 4.85
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	301.554 195.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.785 0.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.08 9.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.56 16.727
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1848 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 2701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.3 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	43.4 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 2701

Compare specifications (specs)