GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GTX 660 OEM

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    154%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 OEM .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

Around 54% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 660 OEM
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGK104 (GK104-200-KD-A2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders640vs1152
Compute Units5vs6
Core clock993 MHzvs823 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs96

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 660 OEM
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1536 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MGeForce GTX 660 OEM
TDP75 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs22 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    19.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    79.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    134.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    1896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • GeForce GTX 660 OEM
    6800

Points (higher is better)