NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA XGPU-S

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and NVIDIA XGPU-S 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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

NVIDIA XGPU-S

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 4 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 233 MHz
16.3x more texture fill rate: 30.4 GTexel / s vs 1.864 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
12.5x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 15 November 2001
Core clock speed	950 MHz vs 233 MHz
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s vs 1.864 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA XGPU-S

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA XGPU-S
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

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition	NVIDIA XGPU-S
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Kelvin
Code name	GK107	NV2A
Launch date	1 April 2013	15 November 2001
Place in performance rating	1498	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	950 MHz	233 MHz
Floating-point performance	729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	30.4 GTexel / s	1.864 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,270 million	57 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR