NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, 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
232 points
4% 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
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS
3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS
5 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

2 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3649 points
5341 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3524 points
4929 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3991 points
5148 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3524 points
4748 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

64 GB/s
300% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

50 W
30% slightly lower TDP
65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.6 Gigapixels/s
5% slightly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

30.4 Gigatexels/s
40% slightly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
33% slightly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

414th of 586
409th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 660M vs Radeon R5 340X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R5 340X GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 660M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660M has a slightly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the Radeon R5 340X at 65 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon R5 340X is better than the GeForce GTX 660M.

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