GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon RX 580 2048SP

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Oct 2018
Radeon RX 580 2048SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580 2048SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580 2048SP
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsPolaris 20 (Polaris 20 XL
(215-0910052))
Fab Process12 nmvs14 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs244 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders1408vs2048
Compute Units22vs32
Core clock1530 MHzvs1168 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs88vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon RX 580 2048SP
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERRadeon RX 580 2048SP
TDP125 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vs15 Oct 2018

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    41.09 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    164.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    224.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 580 2048SP
    5259.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better