NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 Nano +62%

8.192 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +17%

5415

Radeon R9 Nano

4607

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Radeon R9 Nano +16%

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Radeon R9 Nano +27%

60

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Radeon R9 Nano +2%

75

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon R9 Nano

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 16

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

64

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

4096

88

TMUs

256

48

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 1.4a 3x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Fiji

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

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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