NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

83% significantly better overall score

1993 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

44 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

31 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

22 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

38 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

4472 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

358.91 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

36948 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

34067 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

38725 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

44878 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

1375 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

8% slightly higher boost clock speed

1645 MHz

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

192.1 GB/s

224 GB/s

16% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

85 W

41% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

62% significantly higher pixel rate

52.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

8% slightly higher texture rate

144.76 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

8% slightly better floating point performance

4.63 TFLOPS

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

133rd of 586

209th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 5500M specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 Radeon RX 5500M has a slightly lower TDP at 85 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 is better than the Radeon RX 5500M.