NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 590

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 8 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 RX 590

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

31% slightly better overall score

2466 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

52 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

38 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

52 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

20 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4729 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

52086 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

0.36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48483 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45746 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

55240 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1545 MHz

35% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1545 MHz

15% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

191% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

29% slightly higher pixel rate

49.54 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

222.48 Gigatexels/s

73% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

7.12 TFLOPS

73% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

2304

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

49% 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

145th of 586

179th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2018 November

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 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 590 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 590 in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 590 has a slightly 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 Radeon RX 590 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon RX 590 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 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 at 175 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is faster than the Radeon RX 590.