GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs GTX 1660 Max-Q

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated32
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data41.31
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU116AD103
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release dateno data3 January 2023 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data9728
Core clock speed1140 MHz1335 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data515.3
Floating-point processing powerno data32.98 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76
L1 Cacheno data9.5 MB
L2 Cacheno data64 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm

RTX 4090 Mobile has a 200% more advanced lithography process.

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