Radeon RX 540 and GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540

GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Polaris 12

TU116B

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

March 2017

May 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1219 MHz

1590 MHz

Core clock speed

1455 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

6,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

127.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

16000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

384.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.140

FreeSync