GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Quadro M3000M

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Quadro M3000M with GeForce GTX 660 Ti, including specs and performance data.

M3000M
2015
4 GB GDDR5, 75 Watt
14.61
+27.4%

M3000M outperforms GTX 660 Ti by a significant 27% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking359418
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data3.19
Power efficiency13.355.24
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGM204GK104
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date18 August 2015 (9 years ago)16 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1,0241344
Core clock speed1050 MHz915 MHz
Boost clock speedno data980 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate67.20109.8
Floating-point processing power2.15 TFLOPS2.634 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs64112

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data241 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 6-pin
SLI options-+

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192-bit GDDR5
Memory clock speed1253 MHz6.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth160 GB/s144.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsOne Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
Multi monitor supportno data4 displays
HDMI-+
HDCP-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
Display Port1.2no data
Audio input for HDMIno dataInternal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Ray-+
3D Gaming-+
3D Vision-+
Optimus+-
3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Display Management+no data
Optimus+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.3
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.1.126
CUDA5.2+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. 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.

M3000M 14.61
+27.4%
GTX 660 Ti 11.47

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.

M3000M 5630
+27.3%
GTX 660 Ti 4421

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

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.

M3000M 8289
GTX 660 Ti 8415
+1.5%

3DMark Vantage Performance

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.

M3000M 27405
+15.5%
GTX 660 Ti 23726

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

M3000M 6537
+20.3%
GTX 660 Ti 5432

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

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.

M3000M 44603
+18.1%
GTX 660 Ti 37758

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

M3000M 16588
+8.2%
GTX 660 Ti 15327

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

M3000M 16742
+8.7%
GTX 660 Ti 15397

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

M3000M 15678
+39.1%
GTX 660 Ti 11274

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

M3000M 80
+1.6%
GTX 660 Ti 79

Octane Render OctaneBench

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.

M3000M 45
+4.7%
GTX 660 Ti 43

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD61
−23%
75
+23%
4K27
+28.6%
21−24
−28.6%

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data3.99
4Kno data14.24

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+22.2%
18−20
−22.2%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
+27.8%
18−20
−27.8%
Battlefield 5 45−50
+27.8%
35−40
−27.8%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 27−30
+26.1%
21−24
−26.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+22.2%
18−20
−22.2%
Far Cry 5 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
+21.9%
30−35
−21.9%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+22.4%
75−80
−22.4%
Hitman 3 27−30
+22.7%
21−24
−22.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 70−75
+19.7%
60−65
−19.7%
Metro Exodus 45−50
+29.7%
35−40
−29.7%
Red Dead Redemption 2 35−40
+21.9%
30−35
−21.9%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
+27%
35−40
−27%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+11.8%
65−70
−11.8%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
+27.8%
18−20
−27.8%
Battlefield 5 45−50
+27.8%
35−40
−27.8%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 27−30
+26.1%
21−24
−26.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+22.2%
18−20
−22.2%
Far Cry 5 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Far Cry New Dawn 35−40
+21.9%
30−35
−21.9%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+22.4%
75−80
−22.4%
Hitman 3 27−30
+22.7%
21−24
−22.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 70−75
+19.7%
60−65
−19.7%
Metro Exodus 45−50
+29.7%
35−40
−29.7%
Red Dead Redemption 2 35−40
+21.9%
30−35
−21.9%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
+27%
35−40
−27%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 90
+210%
27−30
−210%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+11.8%
65−70
−11.8%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 21−24
+27.8%
18−20
−27.8%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 27−30
+26.1%
21−24
−26.1%
Cyberpunk 2077 21−24
+22.2%
18−20
−22.2%
Far Cry 5 30−35
+22.2%
27−30
−22.2%
Forza Horizon 4 90−95
+22.4%
75−80
−22.4%
Hitman 3 27−30
+22.7%
21−24
−22.7%
Horizon Zero Dawn 70−75
+19.7%
60−65
−19.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 45−50
+27%
35−40
−27%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 22
−31.8%
27−30
+31.8%
Watch Dogs: Legion 75−80
+11.8%
65−70
−11.8%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 35−40
+21.9%
30−35
−21.9%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 27−30
+27.3%
21−24
−27.3%
Far Cry New Dawn 21−24
+22.2%
18−20
−22.2%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 14−16
+27.3%
10−12
−27.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 10−12
+37.5%
8−9
−37.5%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 14−16
+25%
12−14
−25%
Cyberpunk 2077 7−8
+16.7%
6−7
−16.7%
Far Cry 5 16−18
+30.8%
12−14
−30.8%
Forza Horizon 4 70−75
+37%
50−55
−37%
Hitman 3 16−18
+21.4%
14−16
−21.4%
Horizon Zero Dawn 27−30
+26.1%
21−24
−26.1%
Metro Exodus 24−27
+38.9%
18−20
−38.9%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 24−27
+47.1%
16−18
−47.1%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
+36.4%
10−12
−36.4%
Watch Dogs: Legion 85−90
+22.2%
70−75
−22.2%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 21−24
+21.1%
18−20
−21.1%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 14−16
+27.3%
10−12
−27.3%
Far Cry New Dawn 10−12
+37.5%
8−9
−37.5%
Hitman 3 10−11
+42.9%
7−8
−42.9%
Horizon Zero Dawn 70−75
+34%
50−55
−34%
Metro Exodus 14−16
+40%
10−11
−40%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14
+55.6%
9−10
−55.6%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 8−9
+14.3%
7−8
−14.3%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 7−8
+40%
5−6
−40%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 7−8
+40%
5−6
−40%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
+100%
1−2
−100%
Far Cry 5 8−9
+33.3%
6−7
−33.3%
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
+26.7%
14−16
−26.7%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
+55.6%
9−10
−55.6%
Watch Dogs: Legion 6−7
+50%
4−5
−50%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
+18.2%
10−12
−18.2%

This is how M3000M and GTX 660 Ti compete in popular games:

  • GTX 660 Ti is 23% faster in 1080p
  • M3000M is 29% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the High Preset, the M3000M is 210% faster.
  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GTX 660 Ti is 32% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • M3000M is ahead in 71 test (99%)
  • GTX 660 Ti is ahead in 1 test (1%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 14.61 11.47
Recency 18 August 2015 16 August 2012
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 150 Watt

M3000M has a 27.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 100% lower power consumption.

The Quadro M3000M is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro M3000M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 660 Ti is a desktop one.


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

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