NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M and ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 88% higher core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 445 MHz
  • 2.1x more boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 445 MHz
  • 17.1x more texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 1.78 GTexel / s
  • 96x more pipelines: 384 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 33.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1445 vs 43
  • Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 266 vs 226
  • 12.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3176 vs 252
  • 12.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3176 vs 252
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 19 January 2006
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 445 MHz
Boost clock speed 950 MHz vs 445 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 1.78 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1445 vs 43
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 vs 226
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176 vs 252
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1445
43
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
266
226
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
252
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
252
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M ATI Mobility Radeon X1400
PassMark - G3D Mark 1445 43
PassMark - G2D Mark 266 226
Geekbench - OpenCL 4030
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 405.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.098
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 21.798
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 33.754
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176 252
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 252
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

Essentials

Architecture Kepler R500
Code name GK107 M54
Launch date 22 March 2012 19 January 2006
Place in performance rating 1277 1280
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz 445 MHz
Core clock speed 835 MHz 445 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 384 4
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec 1.78 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 9.0c
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128bit 250 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 128
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA