NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

Price

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$ 191.88

$ 157.12 significantly less expensive

$ 349.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points

44% significantly better overall score

2605 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

84 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

56 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

48 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4904 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

503.48 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

48577 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

33781 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

46502 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

53890 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

1607 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

1845 MHz

3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

45% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

3% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

3% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

Identical

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 586

172nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2019 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs Radeon RX 5500 XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER beats the Radeon RX 5500 XT in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 XT has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 5500 XT also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 5500 XT has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 XT at 130 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the Radeon RX 5500 XT.