GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh vs ION 2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1391not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.15no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGT218TU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 June 2008 (17 years ago)15 May 2019 (6 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 cores161536
Core clock speed500 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1590 MHz
Number of transistors260 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.000152.6
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPS4.884 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs896
L1 Cacheno data1.5 MB
L2 Cache32 KB1536 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA1.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 June 2008 15 May 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

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