GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and RTX A500 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile

RTX A500

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU116B

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

May 2019

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1590 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1455 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

127.2

113.3

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

16000 MHz

14 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

384.0 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

No outputs

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.140

1.3