NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1785MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +22%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +130%

5415

Radeon R9 280X

2348

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

Mar 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

1530 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

2048

88

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

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 Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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