AMD Radeon R9 290X VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
amd
Brand4GB GDDR5
Memory2816
Cores320 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R9 290X
nvidia
Brand6GB GDDR6
Memory1408
Cores336 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon R9 290X
Radeon R9 290X
$549 • Oct 2013
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
$229 • Oct 2019
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon R9 290X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 290 W | 125 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | N/A | 1785 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320 GB/s | 336 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 12nm |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Turing |
| Shading Units | 2816 | 1408 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 176 | 88 |
| ROPs | 64 | 48 |
| Memory Bus | 512-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 64 GPixel/s | 85.68 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 320 GTexel/s | 336 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 5.632 GFLOPS | 5.027 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 1.50 MB |
| Die Size | 438 mm² | 284 mm² |
| Transistors | 6200 Million | 6600 Million |
| Required PSU | 600 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 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 290X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon R9 290X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon R9 290X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon R9 290X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
AMD Radeon R9 290X
AMD • 4GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
NVIDIA • 6GB GDDR6
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