AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

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

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +1%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470

3694

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +61%

5979

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470

12

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +116%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470

25

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +108%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470

40

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +97%

79

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 470

34

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +123%

76

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 470

98

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +81%

178

Radeon RX 470

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2019

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1408

128

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

TU116

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Turing

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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