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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti comes with a core clock frequency of 1500 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1500 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit memory bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is made up of 1536 SPUs, 96 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon RX 480, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 120 Watts
Radeon RX 480 150 Watts
Difference: 30 Watts (25%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should in theory be a small bit faster than the Radeon RX 480 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 294912 MB/sec
Radeon RX 480 262144 MB/sec
Difference: 32768 (13%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a bit (about 12%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. (explain)

Radeon RX 480 161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 144000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 17280 (12%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is quite a bit (about 101%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 480, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 72000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480 35840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 36160 (101%)

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.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Radeon RX 480
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year February 2019 June 2016
Code Name TU116-400-A1 Polaris 10
Memory 6144 MB 8192 MB
Core Speed 1500 MHz 1120 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 8000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 120 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 294912 MB/sec 262144 MB/sec
Texel Rate 144000 Mtexels/sec 161280 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 72000 Mpixels/sec 35840 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1536 2304
Texture Mapping Units 96 144
Render Output Units 48 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 192-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 14 nm
Transistors 6600 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

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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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