NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot rated170
Place by popularitynot in top-10048
Value for moneyno data25.04
ArchitectureTerascale 1 (2008−2010)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code nameM92Turing TU116
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date5 May 2010 (13 years old)14 March 2019 (5 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219
Current price$56 $252 (1.2x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores801408
Core clock speed550 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors242 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate4.400157.1
Floating-point performance88 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 540v and GeForce GTX 1660 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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.

InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

Memory

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 typeGDDR3, DDR3, DDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s192.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API support

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.16.5
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDAno data7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

ATI Mobility HD 540v 1008
GTX 1660 71229
+6966%

GeForce GTX 1660 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 540v by 6966% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 5 May 2010 14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 120 Watt

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 540v and GeForce GTX 1660. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 540v is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1660 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v
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