GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon Instinct MI8

GeForce GTX 1660
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2019
GeForce GTX 1660
Radeon Instinct MI8
Memory: 4096Mb HBMPRO
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon Instinct MI8

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660

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 Instinct MI8

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon Instinct MI8
GPU NameTU116 ()vsFiji (Fiji XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs596 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs8,900 million
Shaders1280vs4096
Compute Units20vs64
Core clock1530 MHzvs1050 Mhz
ROPs48vs64
TMUs80vs256

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon Instinct MI8
Memory TypeGDDR5vsHBM
Bus Width192 bitvs4096 bit
Memory Speed2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
vs500 MHz
1000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660Radeon Instinct MI8
TDP0 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date15 Mar 2019vsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    85.68 GP/s
  • Radeon Instinct MI8
    67.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    142.80 GT/s
  • Radeon Instinct MI8
    269.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon Instinct MI8
    512.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660
    4570.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon Instinct MI8
    8602.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better