NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1785MHz vs 1266MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +16%

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +43%

5979

Radeon RX 480

4163

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +119%

822

Radeon RX 480

374

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +52%

26

Radeon RX 480

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +48%

52

Radeon RX 480

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +58%

79

Radeon RX 480

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +111%

76

Radeon RX 480

36

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +67%

178

Radeon RX 480

106

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 16

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Ellesmere

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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