GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and Radeon R9 290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon R9 290
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
13314
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Radeon R9 290
Architecture
Turing (2018−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
Turing TU116
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2019
November 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1770 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1500 MHz
947 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
4,849 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
6,600 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
275 Watt
Texture fill rate
169.9
151.5
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
12000 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
320.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
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