AMD Radeon RX 590 vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 590
Polaris 30
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 590 8 GB with 2304 shaders against the 1 year newer GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 590
- 42% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.1 vs 5 TFLOPS)
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Has 64% more shading units (2304 vs 1408)
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- Performs better (up to 23%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 33% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 30 FPS
- Achieves 47% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (67K vs 45K)
- Has 31% higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 256 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 80 42 33 20 |
86 51 43 25 |
| The Witcher 3 | 58 46 29 15 |
83 65 47 26 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 92 66 42 20 |
133 93 68 29 |
| Far Cry 6 | 61 53 38 19 |
70 62 46 24 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 37 29 22 10 |
46 36 26 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 51 43 31 16 |
55 44 31 19 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 36 26 18 9 |
41 34 26 12 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 33 33 18 - |
44 40 22 11 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 56 35 16 |
77 71 47 23 |
| 1080p High | 57 | 71 |
| 1080p Ultra | 44 | 55 |
| 1440p Ultra | 30 | 40 |
| 4K Ultra | 15 | 20 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4778 | 6042 |
| Solar Bay | - | 19265 |
| Port Royal | - | 1547 |
| Fire Strike | 16527 | 16189 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9737 | 12334 |
| Night Raid | 62043 | 74735 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 69 img/sec | 122.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 38.2 img/sec | 68.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.75 Gpixels/sec | 2.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.31 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.31 Gpixels/sec | 3.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.38 Gpixels/sec | 0.86 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 180.5 Gpixels/sec | 273.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 6238 FPS | 8476.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 789 | 807 |
| DirectX 11 | 65 FPS | 104 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 45 FPS | 50 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 3732 Ops/s | 5033 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 590
No benchmark results yet
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-02 (TEST) | Cinebench 2024 | 3271 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 3307 | 4278 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 4895 | 5856 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 9072 | 9561 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 12467 | 9830 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 43468 | 36109 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1547 | 1858 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2504 | 3286 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 3746 | 5151 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 15075 | 18021 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 96813 | 73708 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 590 and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | November 15, 2018 | October 29, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $279 | $229 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Entry-level |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | Polaris 30 | TU116 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce GTX 1060 | - Radeon RX 5600 XT |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 8500 or above | - Intel Core i5 9500 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (80th and 75th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1469 MHz | 1530 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1545 MHz | 1785 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1408 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 144 | 88 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 22 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | No | No |
| L1 Cache | 16KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 1536KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 49 GPixel/s | 86 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 222 GTexel/s | 157 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 175 W | 125 W |
| Manufacturing | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 12 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 284 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion | 6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 21.55 MTr/mm² | 21.13 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 8000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | No | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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