NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +2413%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 16

Generation

Volcanic Islands

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

667 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

160

88

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Caicos

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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