GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon R9 M275

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking780not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.14no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameVenusTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 January 2014 (10 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$799.99 $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 cores6401280
Core clock speed900 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Texture fill rate37.00127.2
Floating-point processing power1.184 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs1648
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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 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 width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 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 28 January 2014 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Mobile has an age advantage of 5 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 M275 and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 M275
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