NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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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AMD Radeon RX 5500

Price

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$ 174.97

$ 125.02 significantly less expensive

$ 299.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3968 points

46% significantly better overall score

2707 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

88 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

60 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

53 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

41 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

64 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

51 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

40 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

23 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6332 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4717 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

799.88 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

339.58 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

61373 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

40204 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53550 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34601 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

65938 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

44390 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

62004 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

54355 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

1670 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1770 MHz

1845 MHz

4% 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

120 W

25% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

84.96 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

59 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

169.9 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

162.36 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.44 TFLOPS

4% slightly better floating point performance

5.2 TFLOPS

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

124th of 586

166th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

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 vs Radeon RX 5500 comparison

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

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 5500 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 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5500 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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