AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB 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 9060 XT 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 75% (3130MHz vs 1785MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (322.3GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB
+410%
25.64 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1660
5.027 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2025
Release Date
Mar 2019
Navi IV
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
3130 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
132
SM Count
22
2048
Shading Units
1408
128
TMUs
88
64
ROPs
48
528
Tensor Cores
-
32
RT Cores
-
256 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
200.3 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
400.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
51.28 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
25.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
801.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
TU116
Navi 44 XT 8GB
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
12 nm
29.7 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
199 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
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
9.0
CUDA
7.5
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
