NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT 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)

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

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

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT +3%

5.196 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +10%

5414

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660

787

Radeon RX 5500 XT +106%

1629

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +4%

24

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +9%

47

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +2%

73

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +21%

40

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +14%

73

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +3%

91

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +19%

50

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

Radeon RX 5500 XT +13%

59

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +25%

156

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce GTX 1660

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Radeon RX 5500 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2019

GeForce 16

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1607 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 XTX (215-0932396)

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

130W

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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