Quadro FX 380 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking192not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation100.00no data
Power efficiency25.27no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameTU116G96
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)30 March 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 $129

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores153616
Core clock speed1455 MHz450 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt34 Watt
Texture fill rate152.63.600
Floating-point processing power4.884 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs488
TMUs968

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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data198 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR6GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount6 GB256 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s22.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model6.54.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.51.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 30 March 2009
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 34 Watt

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile has an age advantage of 10 years, a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 441.7% more advanced lithography process.

FX 380, on the other hand, has 135.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile and Quadro FX 380. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile is a notebook card while Quadro FX 380 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
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