Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Radeon R9 M290X Crossfire
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Turing TU116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
March 2019
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2x 2800 Million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (FL 11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131