GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GTX 960M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    127%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Around 27% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders640vs960
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock1097 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 960MGeForce GTX 660
TDP75 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

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

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

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

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    1404.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 960M
    5320
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)