NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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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
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code nameVega 10TU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 June 2018 (5 years old)15 May 2019 (4 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$229
Current price$841 $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 cores35841280
Core clock speed1138 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1301 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattno data
Texture fill rate291.4127.2

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 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.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1600 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s384.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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API support

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.140
CUDAno data7.5

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 June 2018 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile
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