Radeon 890M vs GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated253
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data100.00
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 3.5 (2024)
GPU code nameTU116BStrix Point
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2019 (5 years ago)15 July 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

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 cores12801024
Core clock speed1455 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz2900 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million34,000 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate127.2185.6
Floating-point processing power4.07 TFLOPS5.939 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs8064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth384.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2019 15 July 2024
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm

Radeon 890M has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and Radeon 890M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile
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