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Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 based on its benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released August, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 823 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.7 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)The game graphics are, even today, top notch, yet the game still runs well on most computers.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce 930M
- 928 MHz
- 2 GB DDR3
6.9 Out of 10
by hassan-mujtaba (Sep, 2014)Intel is so much focused on the power output of the Core M die that they even designed a new PCH known as Broadwell PCH-LP which is focused on power.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 660 vs 930M among all GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Much better 3DMark06 score | 18,060 | vs | 2,138 | Around 8.5x better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Significantly better PassMark score | 4,121 | vs | 904 | More than 4.5x better PassMark score | |||
| Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 25,130 | vs | 6,557 | More than 3.8x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Significantly higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 1,800 MHz | More than 3x higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Significantly higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 14.4 GB/s | Around 12.5x higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 79 GTexel/s | vs | 22.27 GTexel/s | More than 3.5x higher texture rate | |||
| Better floating-point performance | 1,896.2 GFLOPS | vs | 712.7 GFLOPS | Around 2.8x better floating-point performance | |||
| Significantly better fire strike factor score | 44.27 | vs | 13.16 | More than 3.2x better fire strike factor score | |||
| Significantly more render output processors | 32 | vs | 8 | 24 more render output processors | |||
| More texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 24 | 72 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher pixel rate | 19.75 GPixel/s | vs | 7.42 GPixel/s | Around 2.8x higher pixel rate | |||
| More shading units | 1,152 | vs | 384 | Three times as many shading units | |||
| Significantly higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 900 MHz | More than 55% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,948 | vs | 618 | Around 3.2x better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 64 bit | 4x wider memory bus | |||
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| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 11,760 | vs | 6,850 | More than 70% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| Higher clock speed | 928 MHz | vs | 823 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Significantly lower TDP | 33W | vs | 130W | 3.9x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 660 vs 930M
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
3DMark 11 Graphics Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX 11 GPU performance
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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