AMD Radeon RX 560X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon RX 560X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 RX 560X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1785MHz vs 1275MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X

2.611 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +92%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

TU116

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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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