AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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 580 2048SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (1785MHz vs 1284MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 2048SP +4%

5.259 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

3759

GeForce GTX 1660 +44%

5415

Blender

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

379

GeForce GTX 1660 +84%

701

Radeon RX 580 2048SP

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Oct 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1284 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

41.09 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

164.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

5.259 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

5.259 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

328.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

TU116

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-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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