GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon RX 560

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 560

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 560
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsBaffin (Baffin XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs14 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs3,000 million
Shaders1408vs1024
Compute Units22vs16
Core clock1530 MHzvs1090 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs88vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon RX 560
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon RX 560
TDP125 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better