GeForce GTX 660M vs GeForce 820M

GeForce GTX 660M
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 660M
GeForce 820M
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 21 Mar 2015
GeForce 820M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 820M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 660MGeForce 820M
GPU NameGK107 (N13E-GE-A2)vsGK107 ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size118 mm²vs118 mm²
Transistors1,270 millionvs1,270 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units2vs2
Core clock835 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 660MGeForce 820M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs901 MHz
1802 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 660MGeForce 820M
TDP50 wattsvs45 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs21 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660M
    6.68 GP/s
  • GeForce 820M
    6.48 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 660M
    26.72 GT/s
  • GeForce 820M
    25.92 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 660M
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 820M
    28.83 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 660M
    641.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 820M
    622.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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