NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 46% higher core clock speed: 1455 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 5400 MHz
Launch date 23 April 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed 1455 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

  • 3.7x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 1536
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 6144 MB
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 1536
Maximum memory size 2x 4 GB vs 6144 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 488
PassMark - G3D Mark 10209
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5573
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 15109
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 16828
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8054
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8054
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.441

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Laptop) AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 2.0
Code name N18E-G0 Hawaii
Launch date 23 April 2019 24 June 2014
Place in performance rating 117 282
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $1,399

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1590 MHz
Core clock speed 1455 MHz 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1536 2x 2816
Transistor count 6600 million 6,200 million
Floating-point performance 2x 5,632 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 580 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size medium sized
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 4x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6144 MB 2x 4 GB
Memory bus width 192 bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 12000 MHz 5400 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 2x 345.6 GB / s