GeForce 840M vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce 840M
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce 840M
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce 840M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    279%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce 840M

107 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Around 179% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 840MGeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGM108 (N15S-GT)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,540 million
Shaders384vs960
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock1029 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs8vs24
TMUs16vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce 840MGeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 840MGeForce GTX 660
TDP33 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    8.23 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 840M
    16.46 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 840M
    16.02 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 840M
    790.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce 840M
    2430
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)