GeForce3 Ti500 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 efficiency25.27no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameTU116NV20 A5
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)1 October 2001 (23 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 $349

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 cores1536no data
Core clock speed1455 MHz240 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 million57 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattno data
Texture fill rate152.61.920
Floating-point processing power4.884 TFLOPSno data
ROPs484
TMUs968

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 x16AGP 4x
Lengthno data183 mm
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 typeGDDR6DDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB64 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz250 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)8.0
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.61.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 1 October 2001
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 12 nm 150 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile and GeForce3 Ti500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce3 Ti500 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
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