Arc A780 vs GeForce GTX 1660

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking186not rated
Place by popularity39not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation48.17no data
Power efficiency17.30no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameTU116DG2-512
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 March 2019 (5 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$219 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 cores14084096
Core clock speed1530 MHz2200 MHz
Boost clock speed1785 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate157.1563.2
Floating-point processing power5.027 TFLOPS18.02 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs88256
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount6 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2001 MHz1093 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.1 GB/s559.6 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
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
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 200 Watt

GTX 1660 has 66.7% lower power consumption.

Arc A780, on the other hand, has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 and Arc A780. We've got no test results to judge.


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