NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
VS
AMD Radeon HD 7660G

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

797
Place in performance rating
863
G9x
Architecture
Terascale 3
G92
Code name
Trinity
Laptop
Type
Laptop
2 March 2009 (12 years ago)
Release date
15 May 2012 (9 years ago)
$140
Price now
$950
0.18
Value for money
0.01
N10E-GTX
GPU code name
Trinity
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

128
Pipelines
384
585 MHz
Core clock speed
497 MHz
no data
Boost Clock
686 MHz
754 million
Transistor count
1.3 Million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
32 nm
75 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
38 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
16.46
374.5 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
128
CUDA cores
no data
562
Gigaflops
no data
128
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
no data
Boost clock speed
686 MHz
754 million
Number of transistors
1.3 Million
75 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G.

MXM-IV
Interface
IGP
large
Laptop size
medium sized
+
SLI options
no data
PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
no data
MXM 3.0 Type-B
MXM Type
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
System Shared
1 GB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
256 Bit
Memory bus width
no data
61 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G, the size and number of monitors.

HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
Display Connectors
No outputs
2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
no data
S/PDIF
Audio input for HDMI
no data
+
HDMI
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G is the additional functionality.

+
CUDA
no data
+
HybridPower
no data
+
PureVideo HD
no data
8.0
Power management
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
DirectX 11, Shader 5.0
2.1
OpenGL
no data
N/A
Vulkan
no data
4.0
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M and AMD Radeon HD 7660G graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M or AMD Radeon HD 7660G good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

0.62% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($140 vs $950)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 7660G

More pipelines (384 vs 128)

Finer manufacturing process technology (32 nm vs 55 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M or AMD Radeon HD 7660G?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M versus AMD Radeon HD 7660G performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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