NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 625 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 55 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 250 Watt
4x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 1990 MHz
10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11690 vs 1132
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 782 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 March 2019 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz vs 1990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11690 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	782 vs 542

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11690

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

542

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11690	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	782	542
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	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	TeraScale
Code name	TU116	R700
Launch date	14 March 2019	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$219	$420
Place in performance rating	241	244
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	956 million
Floating-point performance		2x 1,000.0 gflops
Pipelines		2x 800
Texture fill rate		2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz	1990 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 256 Bit
Memory type		GDDR3