NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R5 340

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340, 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

3653 points

1415% significantly better overall score

241 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

6 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

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

913% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5498 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

1002% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5434 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

1126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

109% significantly higher core clock speed

730 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

128% significantly higher boost clock speed

780 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s

422% significantly higher memory bandwidth

36.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

1273% significantly higher pixel rate

6.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

739% significantly higher texture rate

18.72 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

266% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

266% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

405th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon R5 340 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 340 in our tests.

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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340 has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 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 is better than the Radeon R5 340.