NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

GPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare graphics cards

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

5676% significantly better overall score

65 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

23 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

30 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

Free GPU Benchmark

Want to compare your graphics card against the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the Radeon R9 390X? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download GPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4254 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

1050 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

69% significantly higher boost clock speed

1050 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

27% slightly higher pixel rate

67.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

184.8 Gigatexels/s

17% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.91 TFLOPS

17% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2816

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

100% 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

537th 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 390X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the Radeon R9 390X in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. 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 Radeon R9 390X has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 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 390X at 275 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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