NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

95% significantly better overall score

1919 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3950 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

46328 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

49594 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43704 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

51251 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

53% significantly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

78% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

512 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

120% significantly lower TDP

275 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

160 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.12 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2560

81% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

81% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

215th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2015 June

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 390 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 390 in our tests.

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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 390 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is better than the Radeon R9 390.