GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon R5 M330

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking965not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.17no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameExoTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 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 cores3201280
Compute units5no data
Core clock speed955 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1030 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors690 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Wattno data
Texture fill rate20.60127.2
Floating-point processing power0.6592 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2080

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).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 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-+

Supported technologies

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

HD3D+-
PowerTune+-
DualGraphics+-
ZeroCore+-
Switchable graphics+-

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCLNot Listed1.2
Vulkan+1.2.140
Mantle+-
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 M330 and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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