NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q and AMD Radeon RX Vega XT 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 Ti Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 307.2x more texture fill rate: 128.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 225 Watt
Launch date 23 April 2019 vs 8 August 2017
Texture fill rate 128.2 GTexel/s vs 417.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

  • Around 32% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1140 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1630 MHz vs 1335 MHz
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 4096 vs 1536
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB
  • Around 26% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
  • 3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 196748 vs 53834
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed 1630 MHz vs 1335 MHz
Pipelines 4096 vs 1536
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 196748 vs 53834

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
53834
196748
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 8627
PassMark - G2D Mark 365
Geekbench - OpenCL 53834 196748
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1919.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 94.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 492.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4915

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q AMD Radeon RX Vega XT

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 5.0
Code name TU116 Vega 10
Launch date 23 April 2019 8 August 2017
Place in performance rating 333 34
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz 1630 MHz
Core clock speed 1140 MHz 1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 128.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 8.202 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.101 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 4096
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 128.2 GTexel/s 417.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million
Floating-point performance 13,353 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.1
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 483.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 Bit
Memory clock speed 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective) 1890 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 HBM2