NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon VII

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon VII 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon VII

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 715.61 significantly less expensive

$ 945.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

6138 points

68% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

107 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

100 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

106 FPS

46 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

56 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

9129 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

817.47 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

86533 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

77122 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

92086 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

91729 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

1400 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

1750 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

16 GiB

166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

4096 Bit

2033% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s

1024 GB/s

433% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

150% significantly lower TDP

300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

115.26 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

432.24 Gigatexels/s

175% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

13.8 TFLOPS

174% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

3840

172% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

240

172% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

79th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX Vega Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

HBM2

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 VII specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon VII beats the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon VII has significantly more memory with 16 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 significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon VII at 300 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon VII is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.