NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce MX330, 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

44% significantly better overall score

566 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

9 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.56 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

72.87 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

8583 points

9906 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11381 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10474 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10693 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10022 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11353 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

10544 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11858 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9041 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

980 MHz

1531 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1032 MHz

1594 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

157% significantly higher memory bandwidth

56.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

140 W

10 W

1300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.64 Gigapixels/s

25.5 Gigapixels/s

23% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

82.56 Gigatexels/s

115% significantly higher texture rate

38.26 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

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 586

317th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

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 MX330 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX330 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce MX330 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce MX330 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce MX330 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 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 MX330.