GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q vs Radeon RX Vega M GL

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking451not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.79no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 22TU116
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 February 2018 (6 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores1280no data
Core clock speed931 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1011 MHz1335 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Wattno data
Texture fill rate80.88no data
Floating-point processing power2.588 TFLOPSno data
ROPs32no data
TMUs80no 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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeHBM2no data
Maximum RAM amount4 GBno data
Memory bus width1024 Bitno data
Memory clock speed700 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth179.2 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

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 Vega M GL and GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Max-Q
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