AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1785MHz vs 1471MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +109%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +27%

6878

GeForce GTX 1660

5415

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +25%

30

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +21%

57

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +19%

87

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +30%

52

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +27%

93

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +37%

125

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56

46

GeForce GTX 1660 +8%

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +75%

91

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56

110

GeForce GTX 1660 +41%

156

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2019

Vega

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

SM Count

22

3584

Shading Units

1408

224

TMUs

88

64

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

TU116

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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