NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD 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) 9 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more core clock speed: 835 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 30.4x more texture fill rate: 30.4 billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 723.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1447 vs 2
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 265 vs 119
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 22 March 2012 vs 31 May 2005
Core clock speed 835 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1447 vs 2
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 vs 119

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1447
2
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
265
119
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD
PassMark - G3D Mark 1447 2
PassMark - G2D Mark 265 119
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2253
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3176
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 475

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M NVIDIA Quadro NVS 280 SD

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Celsius
Code name GK107 NV18 C1
Launch date 22 March 2012 31 May 2005
Place in performance rating 1277 1280
Type Laptop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 950 MHz
Core clock speed 835 MHz 250 MHz
CUDA cores 384
Floating-point performance 729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 384
Texture fill rate 30.4 billion / sec 1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 29 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DMS-59
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) AGP 8x
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12 API 8.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

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