NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX, 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
318% significantly better overall score
195 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points
74% significantly higher Blender score
70.10 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
5599 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5764 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5367 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5680 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
5044 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz
2% slightly higher core clock speed
952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz
1% slightly higher boost clock speed
1020 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
17 W
723% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s
152% significantly higher pixel rate
8.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s
237% significantly higher texture rate
24.48 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

80
233% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
200% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

277th of 586
434th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2016 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 930MX benchmarks

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

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce 930MX has a significantly lower TDP at 17 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the GeForce 930MX.

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