Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1545MHz vs 980MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+170%
7119
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
2634
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
+195%
4775
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
1616
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Aug 2012
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
915 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
980 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
144.2GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
2304
Shading Units
1344
144
TMUs
112
32
ROPs
24
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.44 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
109.8 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.634 TFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
109.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GK104
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GK104-300-KD-A2
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Kepler
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1