GeForce GTX 1660 Super and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 1660 Super
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Turing TU116
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2019
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
4x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1785 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1530 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1408
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
125 Watt
580 Watt
Texture fill rate
157.1
176.0
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
345.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
7.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
NVENC
+
-