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AMD Radeon 780M vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

Radeon 780M
VS
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
AMD Radeon 780M
Phoenix
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
TU116 (N18E-G0)

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Radeon 780M with 12 pipelines and 768 shaders against the 3 years and 9 months older GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1660 Ti Laptop over Radeon 780M
Reasons to consider the Radeon 780M
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Ray-tracing support with 12 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.3x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 36 vs 16 FPS
  • Includes 6 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
  • Achieves 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (67K vs 32K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1536 vs 768)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
Radeon 780M
vs
GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
52
26
22
11
80
47
38
22
The Witcher 3
26
26
13
-
76
62
42
23
Counter-Strike 2
44
31
21
9
122
87
62
27
Far Cry 6
39
29
21
10
66
60
44
23
Hogwarts Legacy
22
15
11
-
43
32
23
14
CoD: Modern Warfare III
34
29
19
12
49
44
29
17
Ghost of Tsushima
21
15
10
-
37
29
22
12
Cyberpunk 2077
19
20
10
-
43
37
23
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
36
31
20
9
71
65
42
20
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 33 65
1080p Ultra 25 51
1440p Ultra 16 36
4K Ultra - 19
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 2787 5596
Solar Bay 11525 18008
Port Royal 1579 1507
Fire Strike 7885 14839
Wild Life Extreme 5305 11434
Night Raid 33367 60345
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Radeon 780M
32713
GTX 1660 Ti Mobile +107%
67761
Background Blur 86.4 img/sec 119.1 img/sec
Face Detection 35.8 img/sec 64.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 1.03 Gpixels/sec 2.58 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 1.36 Gpixels/sec 3.28 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 1.41 Gpixels/sec 3.37 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.41 Gpixels/sec 0.88 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 132.4 Gpixels/sec 300.1 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 4470.7 FPS 8599.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 885 473
DirectX 11 65 FPS 87 FPS
DirectX 12 30 FPS 39 FPS
GPU Compute 3577 Ops/s 3652 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 12072 & 5628 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Radeon 780M
262.43
GTX 1660 Ti Mobile +181%
738.61
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 182 & 70 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon 780M
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-17 -> RennsportGeekbench 6 OpenCL32197
📘 2026-02-26 (iFraan)Geekbench 6 OpenCL28558
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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 3860 3378
Image Segmentation (HP) 5435 4732
Image Super Resolution (Q) 10580 8716
Face Detection (HP) 12855 7909
Pose Estimation (Q) 34716 35887
Text Classification (SP) 2578 1591
Machine Translation (HP) 3897 1912
Object Detection (SP) 3078 4195
Depth Estimation (Q) 14989 15599
Style Transfer (SP) 78608 70176
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon 780M and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Integrated Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 April 23, 2019
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Turing
GPU Codename Phoenix TU116 (N18E-G0)
Rival Equivalent - Intel Arc iGPU (8-Cores) -
Successor - Radeon 8050S -
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or above - Intel Core i5 10300H or above
Used in CPUs - AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
- AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS
- AMD Ryzen 7 250
- AMD Ryzen 7 260
- AMD Ryzen 9 270
- AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme
- AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
- and 6 more		 -
Laptop GPU ranking (99th and 91st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 800 MHz 1455 MHz
Boost Clock 2700-2800 MHz (configurable) 1590 MHz
Shading Units 768 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 24
Tensor Cores - No
Ray-tracing Cores 12 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-90 GPixel/s 76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 130-134 GTexel/s 153 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Radeon 780M
4.1-4.3 TFLOPS
GTX 1660 Ti Mobile +14%
4.9 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 15 W 80 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 12 nm
Die Size 178 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 25.4 billion 6.6 billion
Transistor Density 142.7 MTr/mm² 23.24 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared GDDR6
Memory Size - 6 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus - 192-bit
ECC - No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 1.2
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4

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Total votes: 6

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