GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh vs GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking243not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation68.65no data
Power efficiency26.56no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU116TU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 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 cores15361536
Core clock speed1140 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1335 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Wattno data
Texture fill rate128.2152.6
Floating-point processing power4.101 TFLOPS4.884 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs9696

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s384.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

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
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
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