NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M and ATI Radeon HD 4850 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 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 34% higher core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 110 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1986 MHz
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1447 vs 934
  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 79
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 25 June 2008
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 110 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1986 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1447 vs 934
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 vs 79

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850

  • 2.1x more pipelines: 800 vs 384
  • Around 37% better floating-point performance: 1,000.0 gflops vs 729.6 gflops
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3344 vs 3176
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3344 vs 3176
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 800 vs 384
Floating-point performance 1,000.0 gflops vs 729.6 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3344 vs 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3344 vs 3176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1447
934
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
265
79
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
3344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
3344
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M ATI Radeon HD 4850
PassMark - G3D Mark 1447 934
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 79
Geekbench - OpenCL 4028
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 3344
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 3344
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M ATI Radeon HD 4850

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK107 RV770
Launch date 22 March 2012 25 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1277 1278
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $199

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
Core clock speed 835 MHz 625 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 384 800
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 110 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Length 246 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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