Apple M1 GPU vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking192not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation100.00no data
Power efficiency25.28no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)no data
GPU code nameTU116no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)10 November 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 cores15368
Core clock speed1455 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1590 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate152.6no data
Floating-point processing power4.884 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48no data
TMUs96no data

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 x16no 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1500 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/sno data
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 outputsno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 10 November 2020
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm

Apple M1 GPU has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile and Apple M1 GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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