NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro K3100M 4 GB, 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

223 points

278 points

24% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

4 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

2901 points

4121 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2083 points

3037 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3649 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3517 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3524 points

4645 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

2223 points

3739 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3991 points

6238 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3524 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3389 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

950 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

680 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s

102.4 GB/s

60% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

49% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.6 Gigapixels/s

11.3 Gigapixels/s

48% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

30.4 Gigatexels/s

45.18 Gigatexels/s

48% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

768

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

412th of 586

389th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 660M vs Quadro K3100M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660M graphics card is better than the Quadro K3100M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 660M has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro K3100M has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Quadro K3100M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660M is faster than the Quadro K3100M.