NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 M470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and AMD Radeon R9 M470 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1140 MHz vs 900 MHz
  • Around 34% higher boost clock speed: 1335 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2670.8x more texture fill rate: 128.2 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 768
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8652 vs 2331
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 365 vs 307
  • Around 12% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 53834 vs 47924
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3718 vs 1804
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 1674
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3718 vs 1804
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 1674
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 April 2019 vs 15 May 2016
Core clock speed 1140 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed 1335 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.2 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 768
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8652 vs 2331
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 vs 307
Geekbench - OpenCL 53834 vs 47924
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718 vs 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718 vs 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 1674

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M470

  • 4x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 M470

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8652
2331
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
365
307
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
53834
47924
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3718
1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3718
1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
1674
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 M470
PassMark - G3D Mark 8652 2331
PassMark - G2D Mark 365 307
Geekbench - OpenCL 53834 47924
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1919.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 94.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 492.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 1674
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718 1804
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 1674
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4927

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q AMD Radeon R9 M470

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name TU116 Strato
Launch date 23 April 2019 15 May 2016
Place in performance rating 334 768
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.202 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.101 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 768
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.2 GTexel/s 48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 2,080 million
Floating-point performance 1,536 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized large

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 96 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

DirectCompute 5.0