AMD Radeon R9 270X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores179.2 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 270X
nvidia
Brand6GB GDDR5
Memory1408
Cores192.1 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon R9 270X
Radeon R9 270X
$199 • Oct 2013
GeForce GTX 1660
$219 • Mar 2019
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 270X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 180 W | 120 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1050 MHz | 1785 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | 192.1 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 12nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Turing |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 1408 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 80 | 88 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1400 MHz | 2001 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 33.6 GPixel/s | 85.68 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 179.2 GTexel/s | 192.1 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.688 GFLOPS | 5.027 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 1.50 MB |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 284 mm² |
| Transistors | 2800 Million | 6600 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 11.1 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon R9 270X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 270X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 270X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 270X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 270X
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
NVIDIA • 6GB GDDR5
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