NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M, 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
1002% significantly better overall score
74 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
2 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
1 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points
498% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1901 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points
354% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2496 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

144.2 GB/s
400% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W
35 W
300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s
681% significantly higher pixel rate
2.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s
681% significantly higher texture rate
10.56 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

960
900% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

80
400% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

24
499% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 586
527th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2012 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 GT 635M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 635M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 635M has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 660 over the GeForce GT 635M.

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