NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 - 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
4.8x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 580 Watt
2.2x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Launch date	22 February 2019 vs 24 June 2014
Core clock speed	1500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 580 Watt
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 5400 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 290X2

Around 18% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 19.441 vs 16.447

Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	19.441 vs 16.447

Compare benchmarks

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

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

16.447

19.441

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	12930
PassMark - G2D Mark	813
Geekbench - OpenCL	61407
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	16.447	19.441
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3355
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	6260

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	AMD Radeon R9 290X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU116	Hawaii
Launch date	22 February 2019	24 June 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$279	$1,399
Place in performance rating	200	282
Price now	$279.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	67.32
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1770 MHz
Core clock speed	1500 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	580 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,632 gflops
Pipelines		2x 2816
Texture fill rate		2x 176.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	4x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz	5400 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth		2x 345.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 512 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5