NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M6000
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (43W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660M Mac Edition
0.73 TFLOPS
FirePro M6000
+40%
1.024 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2013
Release Date
Jul 2012
GeForce 600M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
384
Shading Units
640
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
30.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
729.6 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1024 GFLOPS
30.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
64.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
43W
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-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
Heathrow
-
GPU Variant
Heathrow XT GL
(216-0835033)
Kepler
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
Vulkan
1.2
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
