GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q vs RTX 3090

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	24	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	14.90	no data
Power efficiency	13.76	no data
Architecture	Ampere (2020−2024)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GA102	TU116
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	1 September 2020 (4 years ago)	no data (2024 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,499	$229

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	10496	no data
Core clock speed	1395 MHz	1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	1335 MHz
Number of transistors	28,300 million	6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	350 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	556.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	35.58 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	112	no data
TMUs	328	no data
Tensor Cores	328	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	82	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	336 mm	no data
Width	3-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	1x 6-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 type	GDDR6X	no data
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	no data
Memory bus width	384 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	1219 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	936.2 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5	no data
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.2	-
CUDA	8.5	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

8 nm

12 nm

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