AMD Radeon R9 270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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AMD Radeon R9 270 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 93% (1785MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +112%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270

1603

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +273%

5982

Radeon R9 270

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Oct 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

TU116

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x 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 Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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