NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 580

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 580

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 139.19

$ 35.78 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

73% significantly better overall score

2281 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

34 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Fortnite FPS

Low settings at 1080p

209 FPS

222 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4328 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

104% significantly higher Blender score

390.99 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

49182 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

54191 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

45779 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

19% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

32% 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

288 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

54% significantly lower TDP

185 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

98% significantly higher pixel rate

42.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

192.96 Gigatexels/s

13% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

6.18 TFLOPS

13% slightly 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

124th of 586

192nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2017 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

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon RX 580 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti beats the Radeon RX 580 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 580 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is better than the Radeon RX 580.