GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6610M

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon HD 6610M and GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

HD 6610M
2011
1 GB DDR3, 26 Watt
1.47

GTX 660M Mac Edition outperforms HD 6610M by a small 7% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking989968
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.872.15
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameWhistlerGK107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)1 April 2013 (11 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 cores480384
Core clock speed450 MHz950 MHz
Number of transistors716 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)26 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.8030.40
Floating-point processing power0.432 TFLOPS0.7296 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2432

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s80 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.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.0

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 1.47 1.57
Recency 4 January 2011 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 26 Watt 50 Watt

HD 6610M has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 92.3% lower power consumption.

GTX 660M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has a 6.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Given the minimal performance differences, no clear winner can be declared between Radeon HD 6610M and GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition.


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