NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 660M sales 22 March 2012. This is Kepler architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64.0 GB / s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.48 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 660M's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
Kepler
Code name
GK107
Type
Laptop
Release date
22 March 2012
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 660M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 660M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
CUDA cores
384
Transistor count
1,270 million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 7
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 660M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Laptop size
large
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
2-way
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 660M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 660M.
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDMI
+
HDCP
+
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 660M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
3D Vision
+
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+
CUDA
+
SLI
+
DirectX 11
DirectX 11
FXAA
+
TXAA
+
Adaptive VSync
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 660M, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 API
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
OpenCL
1.1
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 660M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
7.48
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
12861
3DMark Fire Strike Score
1703
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
1751
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
2369
3DMark Vantage Performance
10971
Passmark
1439
Octane Render OctaneBench
13
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 660M. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
36 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 660M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 660M performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 660M from AMD is Radeon R7 M380, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.
