NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 430 MHz
2.9x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 10.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 109 Watt
4.8x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1050 MHz
6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 855

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 28 July 2005
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 430 MHz
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s vs 10.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 109 Watt
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	5125 vs 855

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

9.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 855 vs 91.5

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	855 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

5125

855

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

91.5

855

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
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	855
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	31.3
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	43.4
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	91.5	855
PassMark - G3D Mark		227
PassMark - G2D Mark		120

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Curie
Code name	GK107	G70
Launch date	1 April 2013	28 July 2005
Place in performance rating	1498	1495
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,499
Price now		$249
Value for money (0-100)		1.08
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	430 MHz
Floating-point performance	729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s	10.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	109 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	302 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		267 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	33.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3