AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 69% (1770MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +102%

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X

1769

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +254%

6271

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2019

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

120W

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

TU116

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

TU116-400-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

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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