Quadro M2000 vs GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Place in the ranking	731	436
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	3.45
Power efficiency	1.79	9.55
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	GK104	GM206
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	22 August 2012 (12 years ago)	8 April 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$437.75

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 cores	1152	768
Core clock speed	823 MHz	796 MHz
Boost clock speed	888 MHz	1163 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	85.25	55.82
Floating-point processing power	2.046 TFLOPS	1.786 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	96	48

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 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	241 mm	201 mm
Width	2-slot	1" (2.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	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	GDDR5	128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1653 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	Up to 106 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	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	4x DisplayPort
Number of simultaneous displays	no data	4
HDMI	+	-

Supported technologies

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

3D Vision Pro	no data	+
Mosaic	no data	+
nView Desktop Management	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.1.126
CUDA	3.0	5.2

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	3.36	10.34
Recency	22 August 2012	8 April 2016
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	75 Watt

Quadro M2000 has a 207.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 73.3% lower power consumption.

The Quadro M2000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 OEM in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 660 OEM is a desktop card while Quadro M2000 is a workstation one.

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