NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs AMD Radeon HD 8470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 1 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

696% significantly better overall score

28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3649 points

364% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

785 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3991 points

408% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

785 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

950 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

100% significantly more memory

1 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W

35 W

42% much lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 586

557th 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 660M vs Radeon HD 8470 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 660M graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8470 in our tests.

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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 660M has significantly more memory with 2 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8470 has a much lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660M at 50 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 660M over the Radeon HD 8470.