NVIDIA TU116

TU116

TU116-150-KA-A1

TU116-250-KA-A1

TU116-300-A1

TU116-400-A1

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Die Shot

Block Diagram

SM Diagram

NVIDIA's TU116 GPU uses the Turing architecture and is made using a 12 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 284 mm² and a transistor count of 6,600 million it is a medium-sized chip. TU116 supports DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_1). For GPU compute applications, OpenCL version 3.0 and CUDA 7.5 can be used. It features 1536 shading units, 96 texture mapping units and 48 ROPs.

Further reading: Turing Architecture Whitepaper

Graphics Processor

Released: Feb 22nd, 2019

GPU Name: TU116

Codename: NV168

Architecture: Turing

Foundry: TSMC

Process Type: 12FFN FinFET

Process Size: 12 nm

Transistors: 6,600 million

Density: 23.2M / mm²

Die Size: 284 mm²

Package: BGA-2228

Package Size: 37.5 mm × 37.5 mm

Graphics Features

DirectX: 12 (12_1)

OpenGL: 4.6

OpenCL: 3.0

Vulkan: 1.3

CUDA: 7.5

Shader Model: 6.8

WDDM: 3.2

NVENC: 7th Gen

NVDEC: 4th Gen

PureVideo HD: VP10

VDPAU: Feature Set J

Render Config

Shading Units: 1536

TMUs: 96

ROPs: 48

SM Count: 24

FP16 Units: 3072

FP64 Units: 48

SFUs: 384

TPCs: 12

GPCs: 3

Tex L1 Cache: 32 KB per SM

L1 Cache: 64 KB per SM

L2 Cache: 1536 KB

Max. TDP: 125 W

All Turing GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2025 Blackwell 2.0
2024 Blackwell
2023 Hopper
2022-2024 Ada Lovelace
2020-2024 Ampere
2018-2022 Turing
2017-2020 Volta
2016-2021 Pascal
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2006-2010 Tesla
2003-2013 Curie
2003-2005 Rankine
2001-2003 Kelvin
1999-2005 Celsius
1998-2000 Fahrenheit

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA TU116 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	Base Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	TU116-400-A1	6 GB	1536	96	48	1500 MHz	1770 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	TU116-300-A1	6 GB	1408	88	48	1530 MHz	1785 MHz	2001 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile		6 GB	1536	96	48	1455 MHz	1590 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q		6 GB	1536	96	48	1140 MHz	1335 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER	TU116-250-KA-A1	4 GB	1280	80	32	1530 MHz	1725 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	TU116-300-A1	6 GB	1408	88	48	1530 MHz	1785 MHz	1750 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile	N18P-G61	4 GB	1024	64	32	1350 MHz	1485 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116	TU116-150-KA-A1	4 GB	896	56	32	1410 MHz	1590 MHz	1500 MHz
NVIDIA CMP 30HX	TU116-100-A1	6 GB	1408	88	48	1530 MHz	1785 MHz	1750 MHz

TU116 GPU Notes

NVENC: 7th Gen
NVDEC: 4th Gen
PureVideo HD: VP10
VDPAU: Feature Set J

Latest Drivers:
Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 (x64):
GeForce Release 474.89

Windows 10 / 11 (x64):
GeForce Release: Latest

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