GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1005not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.40no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameMadisonTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 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 cores4001536
Core clock speed450 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed650 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors627 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate9.000152.6
Floating-point processing power0.36 TFLOPS4.884 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2096

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 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s384.0 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 9 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

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