NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2815MHz vs 1785MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 125W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT +14%

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +21%

5987

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4918

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +54%

880

Radeon RX 6500 XT

571

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +73%

26

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +67%

52

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +68%

79

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +51%

41

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +50%

78

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +40%

97

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +100%

60

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +76%

76

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +85%

178

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 16

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

1024

88

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

32

-

RT Cores

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

L3 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

107W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Navi 24

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

6 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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