GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q sales at a recommended price of $229. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2021) | |
| GPU code name | TU116 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $229 | |
| Current price | $1649 (7.2x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 1140 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1335 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 6,600 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory clock speed | 8000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q according to our statistics.
