NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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 R9 Nano

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
Around 46% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 175 Watt
16x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	14 March 2019 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 175 Watt
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

4.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4579 vs 1065

Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4579 vs 1065

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

1065

4579

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
PassMark - G3D Mark	11659
PassMark - G2D Mark	776
Geekbench - OpenCL	58014
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	189.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1902.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.408
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	116.183
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	875.838
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	1065	4579

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 3.0
Code name	TU116	Fiji
Launch date	14 March 2019	27 August 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$219	$649
Place in performance rating	258	261
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	8,900 million
Compute units		64
Floating-point performance		8,192 gflops
Pipelines		4096
Stream Processors		4096
Texture fill rate		256.0 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz	500 MHz
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount		4 GB
Memory bandwidth		512 GB/s
Memory bus width		4096 bit
Memory type		High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore