NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 52.99GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +1074%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 16

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

52.99GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

320

88

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.70 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.70 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.2 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.63 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

RV670

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

4.1

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