Radeon RX 5700M 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 efficiency2.14no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGK107Navi 10
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 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 cores3842304
Core clock speed950 MHz1465 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1720 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate30.40247.7
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS7.926 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs32144

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s384.0 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 outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 180 Watt

GTX 660M Mac Edition has 260% lower power consumption.

RX 5700M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and Radeon RX 5700M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
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