Arc A310 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated366
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data13.25
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameTU116BDG2-128
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2019 (5 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 years ago)

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 cores1536768
Core clock speed1455 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data75 Watt
Texture fill rate152.664.00
Floating-point processing power4.884 TFLOPS3.072 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs9632
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data6

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 x8
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s124.0 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, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2019 12 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Arc A310, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh and Arc A310. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh is a notebook card while Arc A310 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh
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Intel Arc A310
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