GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition and GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

R9 M295X Mac Edition
2014
4 GB GDDR5, 250 Watt
13.40
+754%

R9 M295X Mac Edition outperforms GTX 660M Mac Edition by a whopping 754% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking383968
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.672.15
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameAmethystGK107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 November 2014 (10 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed850 MHz950 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate108.830.40
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS0.7296 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs12832

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-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1362 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth174.3 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.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
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 13.40 1.57
Recency 23 November 2014 1 April 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 50 Watt

R9 M295X Mac Edition has a 753.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 660M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 400% lower power consumption.

The Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition in performance tests.


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