GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon R9 370

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking403not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.63no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTrinidadTU116B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 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 cores12801280
Core clock speed925 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Wattno data
Texture fill rate78.00127.2
Floating-point processing power2.496 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs8080

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
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1400 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API 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 5 May 2015 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile 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 R9 370 and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 370 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 370
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