AMD Radeon R7 M260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M260 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 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

232 points

4% slightly better overall score

223 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

Identical

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

2 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5767 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5710 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5130 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5311 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

940 MHz

950 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

980 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

32 GB/s

64 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

7.84 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

23.52 Gigatexels/s

30.4 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly 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

410th of 586

414th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.3

4.5

Radeon R7 M260 vs GeForce GTX 660M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon R7 M260 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660M in our tests.

In our comparison, 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. Despite this, the Radeon R7 M260 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon R7 M260 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 M260 over the GeForce GTX 660M.