AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon R9 295X2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 R9 295X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 295X2 +14%

5.733 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 295X2

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Apr 2014

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

2816

Shading Units

1408

176

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.15 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

179.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

5.733 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

716.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

120W

900 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius

GPU Name

TU116

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

438 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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