NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile sales 15 May 2019 at a recommended price of $229 . This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 384.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
We have no data on GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile benchmark results.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile: 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 | TU116B | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 15 May 2019 (4 years old) | |
Launch price (MSRP) | $229 | |
Current price | $911 (4x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Core clock speed | 1455 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
Boost clock speed | 1590 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
Number of transistors | 6,600 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
Texture fill rate | 127.2 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
Information on GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile: 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 type | GDDR6 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
Memory clock speed | 16000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 384.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. 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 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
Shader Model | 6.5 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Vulkan | 1.2.140 | |
CUDA | 7.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile is Radeon RX 5300M.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile according to our statistics.