Radeon 780M vs Radeon 660M

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older Radeon 660M that utilizes 6 pipelines and 384 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Radeon 660M over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.3 vs 1.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 78% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 16 vs 9 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 2.3x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (32K vs 14K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (768 vs 384)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
27
13
11
-
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
9
12
-
-
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
28
17
13
-
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
20
16
9
-
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
10
-
-
-
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
18
15
13
-
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
13
-
-
-
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
9
9
-
-
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
17
14
11
-
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 17
1080p Ultra 25 12
1440p Ultra 16 9
4K Ultra - -
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
2661
Time Spy 2787 1514
Solar Bay 11525 6396
Port Royal 1579 586
Fire Strike 7885 4879
Wild Life Extreme 5305 2676
Night Raid 33367 18958
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 780M +133%
32713
14065
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 36 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 16.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 0.48 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 0.53 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 46.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 2056.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Radeon 780M +122%
6762
G2D Mark 885 654
DirectX 11 65 FPS 47 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS 23 FPS
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s 1321 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 12072 & 5 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 780M +184%
262.58
92.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 179 & 4 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
Radeon 660M
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
Radeon 780M +133%
9091
GB6 ML Half Precision
Radeon 780M +185%
13510
GB6 ML Quantized
Radeon 780M +128%
6786
Image Classification (SP) 3860 1465
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 1706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 4266
Face Detection (HP) 12855 5115
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 12992
Text Classification (SP) 2578 1116
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 1859
Object Detection (SP) 3078 1574
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 6538
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 26656
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and Radeon 660M

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Integrated Integrated
Released January 4, 2023 January 1, 2022
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Phoenix Rembrandt
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 8050S - Radeon 8040S
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - AMD Ryzen 5 6600H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more
- AMD Ryzen 5 150
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535U
- AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS
- AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 6650U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- AMD Ryzen 5 6600H
Laptop GPU ranking (98th and 116th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 400 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1800-1900 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 384
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 24
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 16
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 6
Ray-tracing Cores 12 6
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1024KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 29-30 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 43-46 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M +187%
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
1.4-1.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 15 W 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 208 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 13.1 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 62.98 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
ECC - No

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 2.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 -

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