GeForce GTX 660 and Mobility Radeon X1600 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 660
Mobility Radeon X1600
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
GK106
M56
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
September 2012
February 2006
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
One 6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1033 MHz
450 MHz
Core clock speed
980 MHz
5 MHz
CUDA cores
960
-
Floating-point performance
1,981 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,540 million
157 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
17
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
78.4 billion/sec
1.800
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR/DDR2/GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
192-bit GDDR5
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.0 GB/s
940 MHz
Memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s
15.04 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.3
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
3D Blu-Ray
+
-
3D Gaming
+
-
3D Vision
+
-