NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1785MHz vs 1206MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +16%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 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

926 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

1408

Shading Units

1792

88

TMUs

112

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

38.59 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Ellesmere

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

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

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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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