GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q sales at a recommended price of $229. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	TU116
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed	1140 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed	1335 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	6,600 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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