AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (2310MHz vs 1785MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +370%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6950 XT +295%

21420

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

Blender

Radeon RX 6950 XT +267%

2889

GeForce GTX 1660

787

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +258%

86

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +231%

156

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +193%

214

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +205%

122

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +173%

200

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +119%

200

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +160%

130

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +192%

152

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6950 XT +21%

189

GeForce GTX 1660

156

Radeon RX 6950 XT

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

80

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

1408

320

TMUs

88

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

TU116

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

12 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

335W

TDP

120W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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