NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1785MHz vs 1420MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 GME +30%

6.543 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +22%

5415

Radeon RX 590 GME

4432

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 590 GME

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2020

GeForce 16

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1420 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

45.44 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

204.5 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.543 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.543 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

409.0 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 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Polaris 20

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTR (215-0910066)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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