AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +3%

5.196 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5500 XT

4912

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +21%

5982

Blender

Radeon RX 5500 XT +98%

1629

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

822

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

23

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +13%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

43

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +20%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

71

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +11%

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

33

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +24%

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

64

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +21%

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

88

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +10%

97

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

42

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +42%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

59

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +28%

76

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5500 XT

124

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +43%

178

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Oct 2019

Navi

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1408

88

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

TU116

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x 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

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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