NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 480

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 1439.59 significantly less expensive

$ 1668.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

70% significantly better overall score

2142 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

33 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

45 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

349.71 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

44522 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

48947 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

42732 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

49182 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

1266 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

1266 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

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

111% significantly higher pixel rate

40.51 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

182.3 Gigatexels/s

16% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.83 TFLOPS

16% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

63% 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

199th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2016 June

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 480 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 480 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 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 also has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 480 has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 480 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the Radeon RX 480.