NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 280

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 280

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 207.12 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

193% significantly better overall score

1280 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

84 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

30 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

19 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

27 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

10 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2043 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

85% significantly higher core clock speed

827 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

91% significantly higher boost clock speed

933 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

40% slightly higher memory bandwidth

240 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

100% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

186% significantly higher pixel rate

29.86 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

104.5 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

3.34 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

1792

27% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

27% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

244th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon R9 280 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 280 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the Radeon R9 280 at 250 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is faster than the Radeon R9 280.