NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 73% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 550 MHz
• Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 2x 4.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
• 24x more pipelines: 384 vs 2x 8
• 16.3x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 2x 22.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
• 3.6x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
• 7.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5125 vs 658

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

• Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 50 Watt
• 7.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 658 vs 91.5

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5125 658
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	91.5 658

Compare specifications (specs)