Xe Arctic Sound vs GeForce GTX 1660 Super

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking162not rated
Place by popularity8not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.52no data
Power efficiency18.14no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameTU116Arctic Sound
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 October 2019 (5 years ago)no data
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 cores14084096
Core clock speed1530 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1785 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate157.1230.4
Floating-point processing power5.027 TFLOPS7.373 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs88256

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 4.0 x16
Length229 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount6 GB32 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s1,229 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+-
Ansel+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 500 Watt

GTX 1660 Super has 300% lower power consumption.

Xe Arctic Sound, on the other hand, has a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Xe Arctic Sound. We've got no test results to judge.


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