Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus
vs
ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus and the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and has 1536 texture shaders and 24 execution units.

ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is based on AMD Radeon RX 590, which has 2304 shaders and 36 execution units.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus GPU ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 590
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 30 XT
Turing Architecture GCN 4
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1536 Shader 2304
48 Render Output Units 32
96 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 can access 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is 1.469 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.469 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.565 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 has a TDP of 225 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 225 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 3 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 supports a maximum of 4 screens.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED ASUS Aura Sync

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 168 mm long, 126 mm high and -- wide.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 is 298 mm long, 134 mm high and 53 mm wide.

168 mm Length 298 mm
126 mm Height 134 mm
-- Width 53 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus was released in Q1/2019 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 590 8GB GDDR5 was introduced in Q4/2018 at a price of 299 $.

NE6166T018J9-161F Part-no ROG-STRIX-RX590-8G-GAMING
Q1/2019 Release date Q4/2018
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 299 $
12 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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