NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660M Release Information + CUDA Core Count

[TheBluePill]

No, because then we would have another 480M on our hands. They might do it for workstations for the compute, but it wont be faster than the 680M, just because of where the chips are optimised for power consumption.

We will likely get a derivative of the desktop 660 as the 680M, just as we did the last generation.

Now, i would love to see a workstation "Quadro Mobile" part based on the full desktop 680. It would probably have to fit in an 18" chassis and be a single card solution.. but it would be pretty killer. Never happen.. but still..

[nissangtr786]

I really want a gtx 660m.

NVIDIA Announces the GeForce 600M series Enabling High-end gaming on Smaller Laptops

This is valuable information as it shows the benchmark details.

Looks like gt 640m for 720p gaming and gtx 660m for 1080p gaming. I so want the gtx660m even if it is 40-45w tdp it is worth getting for the extra grunt. I am sure I can play most newest games at 60fps at 1080p with one or 2 settings medium highish.

[maxheap]

looks that way buddy, I think gtx 660m will be a big success in mainstream/enthusiasts gaming

[ryzeki]

Man... that chart looks wrong. the GT650m looks faster from that same chart.

And several generations later... still with mere 60sGB/s bandwidth? That's barely enough for high resolution gaming. They should have gone at least 70s. They basically have the same memory bandwidth from cards dating to the 9800m gtx.

Mid range had a nice bump in performance. The rest remained more or less the same.

[Speedy Gonzalez]

if they can just put that 660m on a macbook pro and price it under 2k just dreaming here

[ryzeki]

I really want a gtx 660m.

NVIDIA Announces the GeForce 600M series Enabling High-end gaming on Smaller Laptops

This is valuable information as it shows the benchmark details.

Looks like gt 640m for 720p gaming and gtx 660m for 1080p gaming. I so want the gtx660m even if it is 40-45w tdp it is worth getting for the extra grunt. I am sure I can play most newest games at 60fps at 1080p with one or 2 settings medium highish.

I say you should aim for a 570/670m or higher. If the 660m is aimed at less than the 570m, you will be out of luck playing at high settings 60fps newest games. I certainly can't maintain such fps unless I dial more than 1 setting haha.

[nissangtr786]

ryzeki

That chart is not wrong. The gt640m shows games run at 1366x768 vs the gtx660m running at 1920x1080. The gtx660m is the card to get and its supposed to be a 40-45w card. My current 9600m gt is a 23w card but I am sure a 40-45w card won't matter that much if you are future proofing yourself as its so much more powerful.

My dream is to get a 3612qm 35w and a gtx660m 40-45w so around 30w more then my laptop which takes 70w when stressed at gaming so 100w which is less then a 2630qm and gt555m.

[TheBluePill]

ryzeki

That chart is not wrong. The gt640m shows games run at 1366x768 vs the gtx660m running at 1920x1080. The gtx660m is the card to get and its supposed to be a 40-45w card. My current 9600m gt is a 23w card but I am sure a 40-45w card won't matter that much if you are future proofing yourself as its so much more powerful.

My dream is to get a 3612qm 35w and a gtx660m 40-45w so around 30w more then my laptop which takes 70w when stressed at gaming so 100w which is less then a 2630qm and gt555m.

Sounds like what i figure Razer will do with the next Blade.

[nissangtr786]

I say you should aim for a 570/670m or higher. If the 660m is aimed at less than the 570m, you will be out of luck playing at high settings 60fps newest games. I certainly can't maintain such fps unless I dial more than 1 setting haha.

You do realise the gtx660-m is the highest end 28nm card nvidia will release first and will fit in thin size laptops and take less then half your 570m in power. What I mean is from those charts it shows 1080p on ultra detail or highest possible at 35-50fps. The 670m is pointless card as all it is a power hungry big card that will require massive cooling. I rather 2x performance per watt then the 670m and although I won't overclock, the performance should be similar at half the power.

Besides my current 5930g runs games at 35-50fps on high like dirt 3 at 1280x800 or fifa 11 demo at 60fps or batman arkham asylum on high at 35fps or test drive unlimited 2 at 35 fps on medium high ish. My cpu probably bottlenecks tdu2 a bit.

I reckon gt650m is bare minimum with gddr5 for gaming. GTX660m is perfect for most people as it is the 28nm kepler which is a 40-45w card.

22nm ivy bridge with 22nm graphics integrated and 28nm kepler gtx660m is great for virtually everything. I won't mind if I can play every game at 1080p with shadows down to medium if it gets to 60fps and I have great battery life and my laptop only take 100w to game. Thats perfect really as 1080p gaming on a portable laptop that weighs 2.5kg 15.6 will be great. I prefer a laptop not to be thin if the cooling is effected. Besides with new driver updates games will run better.

[Cloudfire]

Put it this way, if GTX 660M come with two memory bus configurations like GTX 460M did when Fermi was introduced, you get these bandwidths:

1. 128 bit GDDR5: 128bit/8 = 16, 16 x 2000 = 32 000, 32 000 x 2 = 64 000MB/s = 64 GB/s

2. 192 bit GDDR5: 192bit/8 = 24, 24 x 2000 = 48 000, 48 000 x 2 = 96 000MB/s = 96 GB/s

Comparisons:

GTX 675M/GTX 580M 256bit GDDR5: 96GB/s
GTX 660M 192bit GDDR5: 96GB/s
GTX 670M/570M 192bit GDDR5: 72GB/s
GTX 660M 128bit GDDR5: 64GB/s
GTX 560M 192bit GDDR5: 60GB/s

So yeah, I bet it is easy for Nvidia to bump up the performance of GTX 660M in wait for 700 series. And I bet that this 192bit configuration will beat the 570M easily

Now the question remains: Would they make this? Is their digit system really this important to keep the 660M in chains? I really couldn`t give a rats *ss about it