AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 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

5396 points

561% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

111 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

82 FPS

70 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

97 FPS

84 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

9586 points

627% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

979.30 points

699% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

68311 points

1153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5449 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

71091 points

524% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56806 points

431% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

94209 points

2085% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4311 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

78331 points

589% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

87728 points

639% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1605 MHz

63% significantly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1905 MHz

84% significantly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

166% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

210% significantly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

140 W

60% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

121.9 Gigapixels/s

490% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

304.8 Gigatexels/s

269% significantly higher texture rate

82.56 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

9.75 TFLOPS

392% significantly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

166% significantly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

166% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 586

278th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon RX 5700 XT vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 5700 XT 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 5700 XT also has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 5700 XT has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 660 has a significantly lower TDP at 140 W when compared to the Radeon RX 5700 XT at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon RX 5700 XT is faster than the GeForce GTX 660.