NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 VS AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
nvidia
Brand6GB GDDR5
Memory1408
Cores192.1 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1660
amd
Brand4GB GDDR6
Memory1024
Cores143.9 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 6500 XT
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GeForce GTX 1660
$219 • Mar 2019
Radeon RX 6500 XT
$199 • Jan 2022
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 | AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| TDP | 120 W | 107 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1785 MHz | 2815 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 192.1 GB/s | 143.9 GB/s |
| Process Size | 12nm | 6nm |
| Architecture | Turing | RDNA 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 1408 | 1024 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 16 |
| TMUs | 88 | 64 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 192-bit | 64-bit |
| Memory Clock | 2001 MHz | 2248 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 85.68 GPixel/s | 90.08 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 192.1 GTexel/s | 143.9 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 5.027 GFLOPS | 5.765 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.50 MB | 1.00 MB |
| Die Size | 284 mm² | 107 mm² |
| Transistors | 6600 Million | 5400 Million |
| Required PSU | 300 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Game Benchmarks Comparison (3 benchmarks)
Scars Above
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Wins!
Based on 3 benchmarks across 1 games
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
NVIDIA • 6GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
AMD • 4GB GDDR6
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