NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 375 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 142 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 1 April 2004
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s vs 4.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 142 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	11.245
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	301.554
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.785
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	16.08
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	16.56
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1848
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5125
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	43.4
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	91.5
PassMark - G2D Mark		78
PassMark - G3D Mark		101

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK107	NV40 A1
Launch date	1 April 2013	1 April 2004
Place in performance rating	1498	1496
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,199
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s	4.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	142 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3