AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
Conclusion
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General info
Comparison of Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660 architecture, market type and release date.
Technical specs
Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines
4096
1408
Compute units
64
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Core clock speed
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1530 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1785 MHz
Transistor count
8,900 million
6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
256.0 GTexel / s
157.1 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance
8,192 gflops
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
152 mm
229 mm
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
+
-
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
+
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
4096 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
500 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
512 GB / s
192.1 GB / s
Shared memory
-
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660.
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
Number of Eyefinity displays
6
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HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
+
-
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
AppAcceleration
+
-
CrossFire
+
-
FRTC
+
-
FreeSync
+
-
HD3D
+
-
LiquidVR
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
+
-
TrueAudio
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-
VCE
+
-
DDMA audio
+
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Eyefinity
+
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API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
DirectX® 12
DirectX 12_1, Shader 6.4
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
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Vulkan
+
-
Mantle
+
-
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
R9 Nano
55.39 +5.4%
GTX 1660
52.56
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
R9 Nano
402499
GTX 1660
478810 +19%
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
R9 Nano
81374 +2.4%
GTX 1660
79435
3DMark Fire Strike Score
R9 Nano
12081
GTX 1660
12629 +4.5%
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
R9 Nano
14362 +3.7%
GTX 1660
13847
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
R9 Nano
17282
GTX 1660
20696 +19.8%
3DMark Vantage Performance
R9 Nano
43546
GTX 1660
57895 +33%
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
30 Mh/s
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Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
295 Sol/s
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Radeon R9 Nano and GeForce GTX 1660 are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Advantages of AMD Radeon R9 Nano
5.4% faster in synthetic tests
Wider memory bus (4096 vs 192 bit)
More pipelines (4096 vs 1408)
Higher memory bandwidth (512 vs 192.1 GB/s)
Mantle (an API developed by AMD for 3D graphics acceleration. Discontinued and later superceded by Vulkan)
Eyefinity (allows using several displays with an AMD GPU)
App Acceleration
CrossFire
AMD PowerTune technology
AMD ZeroCore Power technology
HD3D
TrueAudio
DirectX® 12
OpenGL® 4.5
Vulkan™
OpenCL™ 2.0
CrossFireBridgeless
EyefinitySupport
HDMI
DisplayPortMenu
AMD App Acceleration
CrossfireX
FRTC
FreeSync
HD3DMenu
LiquidVR
PowerTuneMenu
TressFX
TrueAudioMenu
ZeroCoreMenu
VCEMenu
Vulkan (a contemporary API for graphics acceleration, based on now-discontinued Mantle)
MantleMenu
Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Much newer (14 March 2019 vs 10 September 2015)
Cheaper ($219 vs $649)
Finer manufacturing process technology (12 vs 28 nm)
Less power hungry (120 vs 175 watts)
So, R9 Nano or GTX 1660?
Technical City couldn't decide between AMD Radeon R9 Nano and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. The differences in performance seem too small.
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