GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon R9 390 X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated160
Place by popularitynot in top-10031
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data44.24
Power efficiencyno data19.13
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGrenadaTU116
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 September 2015 (9 years ago)22 February 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,399 $279

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 cores25601536
Core clock speed1000 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1770 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)580 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate160.0169.9
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS5.437 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs16096

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
Lengthno data229 mm
Width3-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors4x 8-pin1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth345.6 GB/s288.0 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 September 2015 22 February 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 580 Watt 120 Watt

R9 390 X2 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1660 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 383.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 390 X2 and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
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