NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R5 240

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 240 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5 240

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 54.99

$ 174.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

1615% significantly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

76 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

55 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

1002% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5055 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

946% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4874 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

1101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4984 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

1223% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4242 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

109% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

50 W

139% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

426th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon R5 240 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the Radeon R5 240 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Radeon R5 240 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the Radeon R5 240.