Radeon RX 560 XT vs GeForce GTX 1660 Super

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking159not rated
Place by popularity8not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation59.40no data
Power efficiency18.38no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameTU116Ellesmere
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 October 2019 (5 years ago)13 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores14081792
Core clock speed1530 MHz973 MHz
Boost clock speed1785 MHz1073 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate157.1120.2
Floating-point processing power5.027 TFLOPS3.846 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs88112

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length229 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB4 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1650 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s211.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI++
HDCP+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

NVENC+-
Ansel+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GTX 1660 Super 62639
+97.1%
RX 560 XT 31776

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GTX 1660 Super 60402
+61.2%
RX 560 XT 37467

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 October 2019 13 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 150 Watt

GTX 1660 Super has an age advantage of 7 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 20% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Radeon RX 560 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super
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