NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
VS
AMD Radeon R9 Nano

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

106
Place in performance rating
159
62.49
Value for money (0-100)
23.65
Turing
Architecture
GCN 1.2
TU116
Code name
Fiji
Desktop
Type
Desktop
14 March 2019 (2 years ago)
Release date
10 September 2015 (6 years ago)
$219
Launch price (MSRP)
$649
$698 (3.2x MSRP)
Price now
$577 (0.9x MSRP)
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Design
reference
29.60
Value for money
16.46
Turing TU116
GPU code name
Fiji
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1408
Pipelines
4096
1530 MHz
Core clock speed
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1785 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
6,600 million
Transistor count
8,900 million
12 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
120 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
157.1
Texture fill rate
256.0
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Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
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Compute units
64
1408
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1785 MHz
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
6,600 million
Number of transistors
8,900 million
120 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
175 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
229 mm
Length
152 mm
1x 8-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
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Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Bridgeless CrossFire
1

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
6 GB
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
192 Bit
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
8000 MHz
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
192.1 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
512 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
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High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano, the size and number of monitors.

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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Eyefinity
+
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Number of Eyefinity displays
6
+
HDMI
+
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DisplayPort support
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano is the additional functionality.

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AppAcceleration
+
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CrossFire
1
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FRTC
1
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FreeSync
1
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HD3D
+
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LiquidVR
1
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PowerTune
+
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TressFX
1
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TrueAudio
+
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ZeroCore
+
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VCE
+
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DDMA audio
+
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Enduro
-

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
DirectX® 12
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
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Vulkan
+
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Shader Model
6.3
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OpenCL
2.0
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Mantle
+

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon R9 Nano good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 130 82 67 54 40 21
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 138 86.7 79.3 77.6 53.3 28.6
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 292 160 128 89.8 66.1 37.2
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 297.9 141.7 92 61.9 43 22.8
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 257 138 121 115 71.7 38.2
AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Finer manufacturing process technology (12 nm vs 28 nm)

Less power consumption (120 Watt vs 175 Watt)

More maximum RAM amount (6 GB vs 4 GB)

Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 Nano

1.43% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($577 (0.9x MSRP) vs $698 (3.2x MSRP))

More pipelines (4096 vs 1408)

More memory bandwidth (512 GB/s vs 192.1 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon R9 Nano?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon R9 Nano .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 versus AMD Radeon R9 Nano performance benchmarks comparison

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