NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 4246.12 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

105% significantly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1206 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

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

59% significantly higher memory bandwidth

211 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

120 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% significantly 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

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2016 August

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 RX 470 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 470 in our tests.

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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 470 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 Radeon RX 470 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the Radeon RX 470.