NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1785MHz vs 1545MHz)

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

Lower TDP (125W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +41%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +25%

5979

Radeon RX 590

4761

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +8%

26

Radeon RX 590

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +13%

52

Radeon RX 590

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +11%

79

Radeon RX 590

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +5%

41

Radeon RX 590

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +5%

78

Radeon RX 590

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

Radeon RX 590 +4%

101

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +42%

60

Radeon RX 590

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +13%

76

Radeon RX 590

67

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +61%

178

Radeon RX 590

110

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 16

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Polaris 30

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Turing

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

175W

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 8-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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