NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon R9 FURY X 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 70% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 584.4x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12712 vs 9484
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 804 vs 799
  • Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 187.131 vs 155.307
  • Around 27% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 15.882 vs 12.49
  • Around 5% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 901.388 vs 857.575
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 17812 vs 8673
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 17812 vs 8673
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 vs 24 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1785 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s vs 268.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt vs 275 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12712 vs 9484
PassMark - G2D Mark 804 vs 799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 187.131 vs 155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 15.882 vs 12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 901.388 vs 857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812 vs 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812 vs 8673

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

  • 2.9x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1408
  • Around 35% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 3431.249 vs 2548.187
  • Around 30% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 153.089 vs 117.673
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 8925 vs 3717
  • 2.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 8925 vs 3717
  • 4x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 5170 vs 1278
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 4096 vs 1408
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3431.249 vs 2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 153.089 vs 117.673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8925 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8925 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5170 vs 1278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12712
9484
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
804
799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
187.131
155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2548.187
3431.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
15.882
12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
117.673
153.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
901.388
857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
1278
5170
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 FURY X
PassMark - G3D Mark 12712 9484
PassMark - G2D Mark 804 799
Geekbench - OpenCL 62641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 187.131 155.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2548.187 3431.249
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 15.882 12.49
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.673 153.089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 901.388 857.575
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812 8673
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 8925
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1278 5170

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon R9 FURY X

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 3.0
Code name TU116 Fiji
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 24 June 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $649
Place in performance rating 223 220
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz 1050 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 4096
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 268.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 8,900 million
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 8,602 gflops
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 9 inches (229 mm) 191 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0

API support

DirectX 12.1 12
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 4096 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)