NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling 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 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 1406 MHz
  • Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1677 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 345 Watt
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 vs 7 August 2017
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 1406 MHz
Boost clock speed 1785 MHz vs 1677 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt vs 345 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

  • 2.7x more texture fill rate: 429.30 GTexel/s vs 157.1 GTexel/s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1408
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 19324 vs 17812
  • Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 19324 vs 17812
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 429.30 GTexel/s vs 157.1 GTexel/s
Pipelines 4096 vs 1408
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 19324 vs 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3723 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3362 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 19324 vs 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3723 vs 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3362 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
17812
19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3362
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling
PassMark - G3D Mark 12750
PassMark - G2D Mark 806
Geekbench - OpenCL 62663
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 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3362
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812 19324
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3723
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3362
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5990

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 5.0
Code name TU116 Vega 10
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 7 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $699
Place in performance rating 218 216
Type Desktop Desktop
Design Radeon RX Vega Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz 1677 MHz
Core clock speed 1530 MHz 1406 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 157.1 GFLOPS (1:32) 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.05 TFLOPS (2:1) 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.027 TFLOPS 13.4 TFLOPs
Pipelines 1408 4096
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s 107.30 GP/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 429.30 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 345 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 12,500 million
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 13.7 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
Texture Units 256

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 9 inches (229 mm) 282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt 1000 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 bit
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore