NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580X 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

61% significantly better overall score

2318 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

35 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

19 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

41822 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

33% slightly higher boost clock speed

1340 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

31% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

47% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

99% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

22% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

22% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% 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

189th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2018 March

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

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon RX 580X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 580X in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly 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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 580X 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 RX 580X at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the Radeon RX 580X.