NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon RX 5500

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

19% slightly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

54355 points

0.26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1670 MHz

46% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

1845 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

49% significantly more memory

4 GiB

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

288 GB/s

28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

224 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

150% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

8% slightly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

162.36 Gigatexels/s

26% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

5.2 TFLOPS

26% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

9% slightly more shading units

1408

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

9% slightly more texture mapping units

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

144th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2019 July

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 Ti Max-Q vs Radeon RX 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q GPU is faster than the Radeon RX 5500 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5500 has a significantly 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 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 Ti Max-Q over the Radeon RX 5500.