GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 580G

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated180
Place by popularitynot in top-10057
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data49.13
Power efficiencyno data18.20
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code namePolaris 20TU116
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 October 2018 (6 years ago)14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219

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 cores23041408
Core clock speed1257 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speed1330 MHz1785 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rate191.5157.1
Floating-point processing power6.129 TFLOPS5.027 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs14488

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
Length241 mm229 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2001 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s192.1 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 HDMI, 3x 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 Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 October 2018 14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 120 Watt

RX 580G has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 1660, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 months, a 16.7% more advanced lithography process, and 54.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580G and GeForce GTX 1660. We've got no test results to judge.


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