NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, 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

98% significantly better overall score

1836 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

37 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

21 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

40 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

39% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3877 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40609 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

37797 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

34371 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

45743 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

30% slightly higher core clock speed

1168 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1284 MHz

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

108% significantly higher pixel rate

41.09 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

164.4 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.26 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

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

218th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2018 October

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 RX 580 2048SP benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 580 2048SP in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 150 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 RX 580 2048SP.