NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 75% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1018 MHz
72.1x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 48% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12776 vs 8621
Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 810 vs 768

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 Oct 2019 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 500 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12776 vs 8621
PassMark - G2D Mark	810 vs 768

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1408
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 1408
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12776

8621

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

810

768

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	12776	8621
PassMark - G2D Mark	810	768
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
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	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU116	Vesuvius
Launch date	29 Oct 2019	29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	$1,499
Place in performance rating	207	174
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Price now		$1,099.99
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 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 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	6600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	9 inches (229 mm)	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	Dual-slot
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1250 MHz
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)