NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon R9 290X

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

70% significantly better overall score

1901 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

28 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

39 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

15 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3987 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

43067 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

48969 points

0.64% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

43342 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44042 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

947 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

288 GB/s

320 GB/s

11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

316% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

0.12% slightly higher pixel rate

64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

176 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

5.63 TFLOPS

37% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2816

83% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

83% 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

144th of 604

220th of 604

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

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 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon R9 290X comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 290X in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon R9 290X 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q over the Radeon R9 290X.