Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking194not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation100.00no data
Power efficiency24.77no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameTU116Vega 10
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 April 2019 (5 years ago)1 June 2018 (6 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 cores15363584
Core clock speed1455 MHz1138 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz1301 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate152.6291.4
Floating-point processing power4.884 TFLOPS9.326 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs96224

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

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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit2048 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s409.6 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 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 Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.125
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2019 1 June 2018
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 120 Watt

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile has an age advantage of 10 months, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

RX Vega 56 Mobile, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile and Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
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