NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 8, 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

516% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

12 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

280% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1426 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

715% significantly higher Blender score

88.64 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

535% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

8763 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

469% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

8956 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

544% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9296 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

392% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11397 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

409% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

2000 MHz

12% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

45 W

166% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

435% significantly higher pixel rate

16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

145% significantly higher texture rate

64 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

145% significantly better floating point performance

2.05 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

175% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

175% 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

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2021 January

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 Vega 8 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 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.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 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 Vega 8.