NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME, 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

72% significantly better overall score

2123 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

42 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

32 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

46 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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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

442% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48735 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40056 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

60508 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

21% slightly higher core clock speed

1257 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

29% slightly higher boost clock speed

1380 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

256 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45% significantly lower TDP

175 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

94% significantly higher pixel rate

44.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

198.7 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

6.36 TFLOPS

26% 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

201st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2020 March

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 590 GME benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME in gaming.

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

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 590 GME at 175 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 is faster than the Radeon RX 590 GME.