GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Quadro 3000M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking814not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.20no data
Power efficiency2.48no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGF104TU116B
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$398.96 $229

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 cores2401280
Core clock speed450 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1590 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate18.00127.2
Floating-point processing power0.432 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs4080

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed625 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s384.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/A1.2.140
CUDA2.17.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile has an age advantage of 8 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 3000M and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 3000M is a mobile workstation card while GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro 3000M
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