GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh vs Radeon R7 M260

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1032not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.03no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTopazTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date11 June 2014 (10 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$799 no data

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 cores3841536
Compute units6no data
Core clock speed940 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed980 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Texture fill rate23.52152.6
Floating-point processing power0.7526 TFLOPS4.884 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2496

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
Bus supportPCIe 3.0 x8no data
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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 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-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
PowerTune+-
DualGraphics+-
ZeroCore+-
Switchable graphics+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan-1.2
Mantle+-
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 June 2014 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M260 and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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