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)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11.245
4.233
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
301.554
161.144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
0.785
0.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16.08
7.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
16.56
16.605
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1848
1032
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2690
1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5125
2392
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
31.3
1032
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
43.4
1595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
91.5
2392
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M
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

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

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

3D Blu-Ray
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus
Verde Drivers