Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh vs GeForce GTX 1660 Super

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking159not rated
Place by popularity8not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation59.27no data
Power efficiency18.30no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU116TU104B
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date29 October 2019 (5 years ago)8 June 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

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 cores14083072
Core clock speed1530 MHz1035 MHz
Boost clock speed1785 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt110 Watt
Texture fill rate157.1296.6
Floating-point processing power5.027 TFLOPS9.492 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs88192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s448.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

NVENC+no data
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 October 2019 8 June 2020
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 110 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 7 months, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 13.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Super is a desktop card while Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super
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