NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 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 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 39% higher core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 28.8 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 384 vs 96
  • 2.5x better floating-point performance: 729.6 gflops vs 288 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 3.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1452 vs 417
  • 6.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 268 vs 42
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2253 vs 1963
  • Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2253 vs 1963
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 1 December 2009
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 28.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 384 vs 96
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops vs 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1452 vs 417
PassMark - G2D Mark 268 vs 42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2253 vs 1963
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253 vs 1963

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3259 vs 3176
  • Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3259 vs 3176
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3259 vs 3176
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3259 vs 3176

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1452
417
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
268
42
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2253
1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
3259
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2253
1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
3259
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1452 417
PassMark - G2D Mark 268 42
Geekbench - OpenCL 4037
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 1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3176 3259
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253 1963
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176 3259
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK107 G92
Launch date 22 March 2012 1 December 2009
Place in performance rating 1275 1277
Type Laptop Mobile workstation
Price now $49.95
Value for money (0-100) 22.55

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
Core clock speed 835 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 96
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec 28.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 754 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) MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

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

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
FXAA
SLI
TXAA
PowerMizer 8.0