NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 6790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +274%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6790

1.344 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 6790

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 16

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

1408

Shading Units

800

88

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.44 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.60 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1344 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Barts

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Barts LE (215-0798002)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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