AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 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 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (2815MHz vs 1785MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6500 XT +14%

5.765 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +21%

5979

Blender

Radeon RX 6500 XT

587

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +40%

822

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +73%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +67%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +68%

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +51%

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +50%

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +40%

97

GTA 5 2160p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +100%

60

GTA 5 1440p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +76%

76

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +85%

178

Radeon RX 6500 XT

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GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2019

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2310 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

2815 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

2248 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

143.9GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

16

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

90.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

180.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

11.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

5.765 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

360.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 24

GPU Name

TU116

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

107 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

107W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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