NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M 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
33% slightly better overall score
2735 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
61 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
42 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
7 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
53 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
24 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
89% significantly higher Blender score
380.88 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
45145 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
53865 points

Specifications

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
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
33% slightly higher memory bandwidth
144 GB/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
182.1 Gigatexels/s
15% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
5.8 TFLOPS
15% slightly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
64
33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
165th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2023 January

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
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GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 6550M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the Radeon RX 6550M in gaming performance.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the Radeon RX 6550M.

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