GeForce GTX 660M vs GeForce 830A
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 830A |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce 830A
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M | | GeForce 830A | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GK107 (N13E-GE-A2) | vs | GM108 () |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 118 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,270 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 256 |
| Compute Units | 2 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 835 MHz | vs | 1082 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 16 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 660M | | GeForce 830A | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 660M | | GeForce 830A | |
|---|
| TDP | 50 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Mar 2012 | vs | 22 Jul 2014 |
GeForce GTX 660M
6.68 GP/s
GeForce 830A
8.66 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660M
26.72 GT/s
GeForce 830A
17.31 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660M
64.00 GB/s
GeForce 830A
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 660M
641.30 GFLOPs
GeForce 830A
554.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better