GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Quadro RTX 5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking98not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation14.29no data
Power efficiency12.32no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104TU116B
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,299 $229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores30721280
Core clock speed1620 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1815 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattno data
Texture fill rate348.5127.2
Floating-point processing power11.15 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs19280
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s384.0 GB/s

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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 6 GB

RTX 5000 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1660 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 months.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000
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