NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX 490M

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePolaris (2016−2019)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code namePolarisTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 August 2016 (7 years old)15 May 2019 (4 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$229
Current price$479 $911 (4x MSRP)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1280
Core clock speedno data1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1590 MHz
Number of transistorsno data6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Texture fill rateno data127.2

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX 490M and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16

Memory

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 amountno data6 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMIno data+

API support

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

DirectX1212 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.140
CUDAno data7.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 August 2016 15 May 2019
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 490M and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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