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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M: specs and benchmarks
Price now
276$
Games supported
65%
- Interface MXM-B (3.0)
- Core clock speed 835
- Max video memory 2048 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 4000
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2012
Performance
5.24
Graphics card
Technical data and tests
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
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. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 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
5.24%
percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT.
General info
Of GeForce GTX 660M's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 535 | |
| Value for money | 0.53 | |
| Architecture | Kepler | |
| GPU code name | N13E-GE | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 22 March 2012 (9 years ago) | |
| Price now | $276 | of 12215 (Quadro GV100) |
Value for money
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 660M's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base 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.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 10752 (GA102) |
| Core clock speed | 835 MHz | of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 950 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Number of transistors | 1,270 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 5 (Apple M1 GPU) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 30.40 | of 779.2 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX) |
| Floating-point performance | 729.6 gflops | of 2918.4 (GRID K340) |
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 | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| SLI options | + |
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 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 80 (A100 SXM4 80 GB) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 6144 (GRID A100A) |
| Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 1024 (Radeon VII) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 660M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
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.
| Optimus | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 660M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 660M. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
- Passmark
- Octane Render OctaneBench
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.
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 frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 30 | |
| 1080p | 35 | |
| 1200p | 38 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 660M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 660M from AMD is Radeon R7 M370, which is nearly equal in speed and is lower by 1 position in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 660M:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.