GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs Quadro 400

Place in the ranking	1261	966
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.01	no data
Power efficiency	0.83	2.18
Architecture	Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GT216	GK107
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	5 April 2011 (13 years ago)	1 April 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$169	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	384
Core clock speed	450 MHz	950 MHz
Number of transistors	486 million	1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	32 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	7.200	30.40
Floating-point processing power	0.108 TFLOPS	0.7296 TFLOPS
ROPs	8	16
TMUs	16	32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	163 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	770 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	12.32 GB/s	80 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.1	5.1
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	1.2	3.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.38	1.56
Recency	5 April 2011	1 April 2013
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	32 Watt	50 Watt

Quadro 400 has 56.3% lower power consumption.

GTX 660M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 310.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro 400 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro 400 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition is a notebook one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.