NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon 540

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +453%

5.027 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 16

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

32bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1408

Shading Units

384

88

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Lexa

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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