NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R7 M380

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R7 M380 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

AMD Radeon R7 M380

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 95% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 915 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
8x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 1000 MHz
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11691 vs 1669
Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 782 vs 534

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 March 2019 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz vs 915 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11691 vs 1669
PassMark - G2D Mark	782 vs 534

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M380

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11691

1669

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

534

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon R7 M380
PassMark - G3D Mark	11691	1669
PassMark - G2D Mark	782	534
Geekbench - OpenCL	57152
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	190.366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1892.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.492
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	118.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	887.857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	5414

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon R7 M380
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU116	Tropo
Launch date	14 March 2019	5 May 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$219
Place in performance rating	240	239
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 300 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz	915 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	900 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	1,500 million
Compute units		10
Floating-point performance		1,171 gflops
Pipelines		640
Texture fill rate		36.6 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Eyefinity
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Mantle
OpenCL		Not Listed
Vulkan
Memory
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz	1000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		32 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 bit
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
DualGraphics
Enduro
FreeSync
HD3D
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
ZeroCore