NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1785MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +22%

6.175 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +24%

5414

Radeon RX 580

4359

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +41%

24

Radeon RX 580

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +34%

47

Radeon RX 580

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

73

Radeon RX 580

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +48%

40

Radeon RX 580

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +35%

73

Radeon RX 580

54

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +16%

91

Radeon RX 580

78

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

Radeon RX 580 +15%

60

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 16

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1257 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/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

42.88 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Polaris 20

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

185W

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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