NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 290W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X +3%

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +59%

6265

Radeon R9 290X

3929

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 16

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1536

Shading Units

2816

96

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

169.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

10.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

169.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Hawaii

TU116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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