NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 229.39
$ 500.60 significantly less expensive
$ 729.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
20954 points
473% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
421 FPS
339 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
302 FPS
253 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
380 FPS
320 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
172 FPS
135 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points
7249 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
3144.45 points
335% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
160380 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
194640 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
2970 MHz
66% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
16 GiB
166% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
256 Bit
33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
640 GB/s
233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
380.2 Gigapixels/s
343% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
48.7 TFLOPS
868% significantly better floating point performance

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
128
166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
8th of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon RX 9070 XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9070 XT has significantly more memory with 16 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 9070 XT over the GeForce GTX 1660.

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