GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile vs Radeon RX 470 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking303not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation9.97no data
Power efficiency14.67no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameEllesmereTU116B
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)15 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549.99 $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 cores20481280
Core clock speed926 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speed1074 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Wattno data
Texture fill rate137.5127.2
Floating-point processing power4.399 TFLOPS4.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs12880

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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 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.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.140
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 August 2016 15 May 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

RX 470 Mobile has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1660 Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 470 Mobile and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
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