GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 470

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking261not rated
Place by popularity47not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.89no data
Power efficiency12.00no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameEllesmereTU116
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date4 August 2016 (8 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$179 $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 cores2048no data
Core clock speed926 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHz1335 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattno data
Texture fill rate154.4no data
Floating-point processing power4.94 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs128no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1650 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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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)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 Max-Q has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

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

Be aware that Radeon RX 470 is a desktop card while GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon RX 470
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