AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 93% (1785MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +51%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1408

112

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU116

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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