GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 720M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720M |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GT 720M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 () | vs | GF117 (N14M-GE) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 116 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 585 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 96 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 950 MHz | vs | 625 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GT 720M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GT 720M | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 1 Apr 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better