Radeon E8950 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 424 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 10.59 |
| Architecture | Turing (2018−2022) | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) |
| GPU code name | TU116B | Amethyst |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | 15 May 2019 (6 years ago) | 29 September 2015 (10 years ago) |
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 cores | 1536 | 2048 |
| Core clock speed | 1455 MHz | 735 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1590 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 6,600 million | 5,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 95 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 152.6 | 128.0 |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.884 TFLOPS | 4.096 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| TMUs | 96 | 128 |
| L1 Cache | 1.5 MB | 512 KB |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 512 KB |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 384.0 GB/s | 192.0 GB/s |
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 Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | No outputs |
| HDMI | + | - |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | 7.5 | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 15 May 2019 | 29 September 2015 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | 8 GB |
| Chip lithography | 12 nm | 28 nm |
GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 133% more advanced lithography process.
Radeon E8950, on the other hand, has a 33% higher maximum VRAM amount.
We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh and Radeon E8950. We've got no test results to judge.
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