AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1770MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +7%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.437 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 480

4164

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +50%

6271

Blender

Radeon RX 480

374

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +118%

817

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 480

17

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +64%

28

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 480

35

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +48%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 480

50

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +60%

80

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 480

36

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +72%

62

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +45%

154

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Feb 2019

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

24

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

84.96 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

169.9 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.87 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.437 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

169.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

TU116

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

TU116-400-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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