GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Radeon R9 280X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1660 Super vs Radeon R9 280X
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
13154
Radeon R9 280X
6012
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
Radeon R9 280X
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Turing TU116
Thaiti XTL
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
October 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1785 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
1530 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
-
4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
125 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
157.1
128.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
288 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
7.5
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
+
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
HD3D
-
+
LiquidVR
-
1
NVENC
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TressFX
-
1
TrueAudio
-
+
UVD
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-