GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon 520

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking927not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.86no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameBanksTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date18 April 2017 (8 years ago)15 May 2019 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$229

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 cores3201280
Core clock speed1030 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1590 MHz
Number of transistors690 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.60127.2
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2080

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth36 GB/s384.0 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 compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

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AMD Radeon 520
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