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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti comes with core clock speeds of 1500 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 96 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 295X2, which features core speeds of 1018 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2816 SPUs as well as 176 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 120 Watts
Radeon R9 295X2 500 Watts
Difference: 380 Watts (317%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 295X2 should in theory be much better than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 640000 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 294912 MB/sec
Difference: 345088 (117%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 will be quite a bit (more or less 149%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 144000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 214336 (149%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 295X2 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2 130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 72000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 58304 (81%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Radeon R9 295X2
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2019 April 2014
Code Name TU116-400-A1 Vesuvius
Memory 6144 MB 4096 MB (x2)
Core Speed 1500 MHz 1018 MHz (x2)
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 5000 MHz (x2)
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 500 watts
Bandwidth 294912 MB/sec 640000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144000 Mtexels/sec 358336 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72000 Mpixels/sec 130304 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 2816 (x2)
Texture Mapping Units 96 176 (x2)
Render Output Units 48 64 (x2)
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 512-bit (x2)
Fab Process 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 6600 million 6200 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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Radeon R9 295X2

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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