Radeon R5 M230 vs GeForce GTX 660

Radeon R5 M230
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Jan 2014
Radeon R5 M230
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R5 M230
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    384%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660

Around 284% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon R5 M230GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameJet (Jet PRO)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders320vs960
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock780 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs8vs24
TMUs20vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 M230GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 M230GeForce GTX 660
TDP0 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date7 Jan 2014vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M230
    6.84 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M230
    17.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 M230
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 M230
    547.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R5 M230
    1770
  • GeForce GTX 660
    6800

Points (higher is better)