AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +453%

5.027 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

32bit

Memory Bus

192bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

384

Shading Units

1408

24

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

125W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

TU116

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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