Radeon R4 Graphics vs GeForce GTX 660M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking707not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.16no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK107Beema
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 March 2012 (12 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 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 cores384128
Core clock speed835 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,270 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate30.406.400
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs328

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 supportPCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128bitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolutionUp to 2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 API12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.12.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2012 11 June 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 15 Watt

R4 Graphics has an age advantage of 2 years, and 233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 660M and Radeon R4 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 660M is a notebook card while Radeon R4 Graphics is a desktop one.


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