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    GeForce GTX 660M vs GeForce GTX 960M

    GeForce GTX 660M
    Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 22 Mar 2012
    GeForce GTX 660M
    GeForce GTX 960M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 960M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      207%

    Relative performance

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 960M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 107% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 960M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960M

    The GeForce GTX 960M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 660MGeForce GTX 960M
    GPU NameGK107 (N13E-GE-A2)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size118 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors1,270 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders384vs640
    Compute Units2vs5
    Core clock835 MHzvs1097 MHz
    ROPs16vs16
    TMUs32vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 660MGeForce GTX 960M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 660MGeForce GTX 960M
    TDP50 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date22 Mar 2012vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      6.68 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      17.55 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      26.72 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      43.90 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      64.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      80.20 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      641.30 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      1404.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 660M
      2570
    • GeForce GTX 960M
      5320

    Points (higher is better)

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