GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and RTX A500 Mobile - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile

RTX A500 Mobile

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

TU116B

GA107

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

May 2019

March 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Boost clock speed

1590 MHz

1537 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 (20 - 60 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

127.2

98.37

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

16000 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

384.0 GB/s

96 GB/s

Shared memory

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

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.140

1.3