NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
94% significantly better overall score
1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

82 FPS
32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
697.32 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
40962 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
83% significantly higher core clock speed
832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
16% slightly higher boost clock speed
1537 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
100% significantly higher memory bandwidth
96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
74% significantly higher pixel rate
49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
59% significantly higher texture rate
98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
2048
45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
37% slightly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2022 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop.

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