Radeon E9260 MXM vs GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking968not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.15no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameGK107Baffin
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)27 September 2016 (8 years ago)

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 cores384896
Core clock speed950 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate30.4057.60
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3248

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s112.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 27 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

E9260 MXM has an age advantage of 3 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and Radeon E9260 MXM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
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