NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1845MHz vs 1785MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

Lower TDP (110W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM +3%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 5500 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 16

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1845 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

1408

Shading Units

1408

88

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

162.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.39 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.196 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

324.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Navi 14

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XT (215-0932220)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

110W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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