GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	Vega 10	TU116
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	7 August 2017 (7 years ago)	no data
Launch price (MSRP)	$699	$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 cores	4096	no data
Core clock speed	1408 MHz	1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	1668 MHz	1335 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	345 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	427.0	no data
Floating-point processing power	13.66 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	no data
TMUs	256	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	282 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	1x 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 type	HBM2	no data
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	no data
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.1.125	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

14 nm

12 nm

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