GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon HD 5690

GeForce GTX 1660
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2019
GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon HD 5690
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Feb 2011
Radeon HD 5690

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660

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
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5690

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon HD 5690
GPU NameTU116 ()vsRedwood (Redwood XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs40 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs104 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs627 million
Shaders1280vs400
Compute Units20vs5
Core clock1530 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs48vs8
TMUs80vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon HD 5690
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon HD 5690
TDP0 wattsvs64 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2019vs1 Feb 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    85.68 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    6.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    142.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    15.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5690
    32.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    4570.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5690
    620.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better