Radeon RX 590 and GeForce GTX 1660 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon RX 590
9695
GeForce GTX 1660
12040
Radeon RX 590
GeForce GTX 1660
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Polaris 30
Turing TU116
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2018
March 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1545 MHz
1785 MHz
Core clock speed
1469 MHz
1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
12 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
6,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
222.5
157.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
192.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
+
-