Radeon RX 540 OEM and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 540 OEM

GeForce GTX 1660

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Turing (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Cape Verde

Turing TU116

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

April 2017

March 2019

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1785 MHz

Core clock speed

1219 MHz

1530 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

6,600 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

512

1408

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

39.01

157.1

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

6 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

192.1 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12.0

12 (12_1)

CUDA

7.5

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.5

Vulkan

1.2.131