NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

816 points

159% significantly better overall score

315 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

18 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

141% significantly higher Blender score

50.85 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5123 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5333 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5294 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4745 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

928 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

941 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s

901% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

33 W

324% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

174% significantly higher pixel rate

7.53 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

265% significantly higher texture rate

22.58 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960

150% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 586

372nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 660 vs GeForce 930M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660 graphics card is better than the GeForce 930M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce 930M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660 over the GeForce 930M.