NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1785MHz vs 1560MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600 XT +42%

7.188 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

Radeon RX 5600 XT +42%

7697

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660

787

Radeon RX 5600 XT +201%

2376

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Radeon RX 5600 XT +29%

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Radeon RX 5600 XT +36%

64

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Radeon RX 5600 XT +35%

99

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Radeon RX 5600 XT +17%

47

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Radeon RX 5600 XT +26%

92

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

91

Radeon RX 5600 XT +37%

125

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660

50

Radeon RX 5600 XT

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660

52

Radeon RX 5600 XT +17%

61

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660

156

Radeon RX 5600 XT +8%

170

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

Radeon RX 5600 XT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jan 2020

GeForce 16

Generation

Navi

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1130 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1408

Shading Units

2304

88

TMUs

144

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.6 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.38 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.188 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

449.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Navi 10

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

Turing

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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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