T1000 vs GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
Aggregate performance score
We've compared GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and T1000, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
T1000 outperforms GTX 660M Mac Edition by a whopping 1170% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 970 | 276 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | Turing (2018−2022) |
| GPU code name | GK107 | TU117 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 1 April 2013 (11 years ago) | 6 May 2021 (3 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 cores | 384 | 896 |
| Core clock speed | 950 MHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1395 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 1,270 million | 4,700 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | 50 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 30.40 | 78.12 |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.7296 gflops | 2.5 gflops |
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 | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Width | MXM Module | 1-slot |
| 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 | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 4 GB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 5000 MHz | 10 GB/s |
| Memory bandwidth | 80 GB/s | 160.0 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 Connectors | No outputs | 4x mini-DisplayPort |
API compatibility
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.6 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 3.0 | 7.5 |
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 HD | 6−7
−1333%
| 86
+1333%
|
| 4K | 4−5
−1250%
| 54
+1250%
|
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.56 | 19.81 |
| Recency | 1 April 2013 | 6 May 2021 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 4 GB |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 12 nm |
T1000 has a 1169.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.
The T1000 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition in performance tests.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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