NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 53% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 72.7x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 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 3 September 2015
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 160.0 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 390 X2

  • 3.6x more pipelines: 2x 2560 vs 1408
  • 2.7x more maximum memory size: 2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.128 vs 15.882
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2x 2560 vs 1408
Maximum memory size 2x 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.128 vs 15.882

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15.882
21.128
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
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 21.128
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 390 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name TU116 Grenada
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 3 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $1,399
Place in performance rating 207 246
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 2560
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 2x 160.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 580 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,120 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 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x 8 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