Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
Turing TU116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
March 2019
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1785 MHz
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1530 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-