GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and Radeon HD 7970M X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile
Radeon HD 7970M X2
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
TU116B
Wimbledon
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2019
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1590 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1455 MHz
850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
-
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
127.2
68.00
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
16000 MHz
4.8 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
384.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Portable Device Dependent
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1 (1.2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
1.2.140
1.2.170