NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon R9 290X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 1000 MHz
72.2x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4.6x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 580 Watt

Launch date	29 Oct 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 580 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1408
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 6 GB
Around 22% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 19.441 vs 15.882

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 1408
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	19.441 vs 15.882

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

15.882

19.441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	12776
PassMark - G2D Mark	810
Geekbench - OpenCL	62624
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	15.882	19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5978

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU116	Hawaii
Launch date	29 Oct 2019	24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	$1,399
Place in performance rating	207	283
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1408	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s	2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	6600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		5400 MHz