GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 660
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition |
| 90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTX 660 |
| Around 164% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660
The GeForce GTX 660 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
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| GPU Name | GK107 () | vs | GK106 (GK106-400-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 950 MHz | vs | 980 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 24 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 192 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective | vs | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition | | GeForce GTX 660 | |
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| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 140 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 6 Sep 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)