GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX Vega Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated186
Place by popularitynot in top-10038
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data48.22
Power efficiencyno data17.29
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVega MobileTU116
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2018 (6 years ago)14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219

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 cores17921408
Core clock speedno data1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistorsno data6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data157.1
Floating-point processing powerno data5.027 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data88

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2001 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.1 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 120 Watt

RX Vega Mobile has 33.3% lower power consumption.

GTX 1660, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

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

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


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AMD Radeon RX Vega Mobile
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