GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon HD 7970M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking475not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.35no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameWimbledonTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$229

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 cores12801280
Core clock speed850 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1590 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate68.00127.2
Floating-point processing power2.176 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs8080

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
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 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_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile has an age advantage of 7 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7970M and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 7970M
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