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.

 

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: 11675 vs 1132
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 779 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 11675 vs 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark 779 vs 542

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11675
1132
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
779
542
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 11675 1132
PassMark - G2D Mark 779 542
Geekbench - OpenCL 57905
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 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 251 250
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