GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon R7 260X
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1408vs896
Compute Units22vs14
Core clock1530 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs88vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon R7 260X
TDP125 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better