GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce2 MX

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	1545	202
Place by popularity	not in top-100	42
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	43.98
Power efficiency	no data	17.15
Architecture	Celsius (1999−2005)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	NV11 A2	TU116
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	28 June 2000 (24 years ago)	14 March 2019 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$219

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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	no data	1408
Core clock speed	175 MHz	1530 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1785 MHz
Number of transistors	20 million	6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	180 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	0.7	157.1
Floating-point processing power	no data	5.027 TFLOPS
ROPs	2	48
TMUs	4	88

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	AGP 4x	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	no data	229 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 8-pin

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	SDR	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	166 MHz	2001 MHz
Memory bandwidth	2.656 GB/s	192.1 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors	1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	7.0	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	no data	6.5
OpenGL	1.2	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	no data	83
1440p	no data	50
4K	no data	27

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	2.64
1440p	no data	4.38
4K	no data	8.11

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	28 June 2000	14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	32 MB	6 GB
Chip lithography	180 nm	12 nm

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