NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M 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 7 month(s) later
- 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
- 2.9x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 253.4 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
- 2.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 11.245 vs 4.233
- Around 87% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 301.554 vs 161.144
- Around 51% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 0.785 vs 0.519
- 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 16.08 vs 7.151
- Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1848 vs 1032
- Around 69% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2690 vs 1595
- 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 2392
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 1 April 2013 vs 23 August 2012 |
Pipelines | 384 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 729.6 gflops vs 253.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm vs 40 nm |
Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 11.245 vs 4.233 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 301.554 vs 161.144 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.785 vs 0.519 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 16.08 vs 7.151 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 1848 vs 1032 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2690 vs 1595 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 5125 vs 2392 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
- 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 50 Watt
- 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
- 33x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1032 vs 31.3
- 36.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 1595 vs 43.4
- 26.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2392 vs 91.5
Specifications (specs) | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 15 Watt vs 50 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 512 MB |
Benchmarks | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 16.605 vs 16.56 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 1032 vs 31.3 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1595 vs 43.4 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 2392 vs 91.5 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 11.245 | 4.233 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 301.554 | 161.144 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.785 | 0.519 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 16.08 | 7.151 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 16.56 | 16.605 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 1848 | 1032 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2690 | 1595 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 5125 | 2392 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 31.3 | 1032 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 43.4 | 1595 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 91.5 | 2392 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 437 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 126 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 2108 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Kepler | Fermi |
Code name | GK107 | GF108 |
Launch date | 1 April 2013 | 23 August 2012 |
Place in performance rating | 1504 | 1505 |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 950 MHz | |
Floating-point performance | 729.6 gflops | 253.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 384 | 96 |
Texture fill rate | 30.4 GTexel / s | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt | 15 Watt |
Transistor count | 1,270 million | 585 million |
Boost clock speed | 715 MHz | |
CUDA cores | 96 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
HDCP | ||
HDMI | ||
Maximum VGA resolution | Up to 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
Bus support | PCI Express 2.0 | |
Laptop size | medium sized | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 12 API |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 80 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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DirectCompute | ||
DirectX 11 | DirectX 11 | |
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