GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh vs HD Graphics 4600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking910not rated
Place by popularity56not in top-100
Power efficiency6.64no data
ArchitectureGeneration 7.5 (2013)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameHaswell GT2TU116B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date27 May 2013 (11 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)

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 cores1601536
Core clock speed400 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors392 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattno data
Texture fill rate22.00152.6
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPS4.884 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs2096

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGPno data

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data384.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.34.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan+1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2013 15 May 2019
Chip lithography 22 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 83.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 4600 and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that HD Graphics 4600 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile Refresh is a notebook one.


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Intel HD Graphics 4600
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