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
• 724.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1449 vs 2
• 2.2x better performance in 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

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1449 2
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	265 119

Compare specifications (specs)