NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 470 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 470

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 4208.61 significantly less expensive

$ 4438.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

99% significantly better overall score

1827 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

38 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

27 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3668 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

39085 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

41542 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

33559 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

42112 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

65% significantly higher core clock speed

926 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

1206 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

192.1 GB/s

211 GB/s

9% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

122% significantly higher pixel rate

38.59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

1% slightly higher texture rate

154.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

1% slightly better floating point performance

4.94 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2048

45% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

45% 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

133rd of 586

219th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2016 August

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

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 470 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 470 in gaming.

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 maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 470 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, both the GeForce GTX 1660 and the Radeon RX 470 have an identical TDP. 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 RX 470.