NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon VII

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 2% (1785MHz vs 1750MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 295W)

AMD Radeon VII 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon VII +167%

13.44 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

Radeon VII +71%

9307

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 +1%

787

Radeon VII

772

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Radeon VII +83%

44

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Radeon VII +74%

82

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Radeon VII +56%

114

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Radeon VII +62%

65

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Radeon VII +56%

114

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

Radeon VII +68%

153

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

Radeon VII +32%

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

Radeon VII +19%

62

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +14%

156

Radeon VII

136

GeForce GTX 1660

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Radeon VII

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Feb 2019

GeForce 16

Generation

Vega II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1750 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

1020GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

60

1408

Shading Units

3840

88

TMUs

240

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

112.0 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

420.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

26.88 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.44 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.360 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Vega 20

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 20 XT

Turing

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

295W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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