NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (1770MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti +471%

5.437 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 16

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1536

Shading Units

512

96

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

84.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

169.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

10.87 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

169.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Cape Verde

TU116-400-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Turing

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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