NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 560X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 560X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1785MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +92%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 560X

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 16

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1175 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

1408

Shading Units

1024

88

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Polaris 21

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

3 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x 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

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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