AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +227%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

768

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

TU116

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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