NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M 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) 2 month(s) later
• Around 28% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 740 MHz
• 2.6x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 11.8 billion / sec
• 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
• 2.6x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 284.16 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
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 4.651
• Around 41% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 213.211
• Around 26% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.785 vs 0.624
• Around 53% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 16.08 vs 10.521
• Around 75% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 1056
• Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1790
• 3.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 1352

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

• Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
• Around 45% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 23.978 vs 16.56
• 33.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1056 vs 31.3
• 41.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1790 vs 43.4
• 14.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1352 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	11.245 4.651
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	301.554 213.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.785 0.624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.08 10.521
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	16.56 23.978
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1848 1056
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2690 1790
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 1352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	31.3 1056
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	43.4 1790
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 1352

Compare specifications (specs)