AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 54% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 2815 MHz vs 1770 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 6 nm vs 12 nm
Around 12% lower typical power consumption: 107 Watt vs 120 Watt
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 812 vs 807

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 Jan 2022 vs 22 February 2019
Core clock speed	2310 MHz vs 1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz vs 1770 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm vs 12 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt vs 120 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	812 vs 807

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

5.3x more memory clock speed: 12000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Around 35% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12900 vs 9583
Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 61100 vs 48727
4.5x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1061 vs 235

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	12000 MHz vs 2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12900 vs 9583
Geekbench - OpenCL	61100 vs 48727
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1061 vs 235

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

812

807

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9583

12900

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

48727

61100

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

235

1061

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	812	807
PassMark - G3D Mark	9583	12900
Geekbench - OpenCL	48727	61100
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	235	1061
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		208.608
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2573.643
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		16.447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		145.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		926.614
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3355
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16952
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3355

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Turing
Code name	Navi 24	TU116
Launch date	19 Jan 2022	22 February 2019
Place in performance rating	216	221
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Price now		$279.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		67.32
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2815 MHz	1770 MHz
Compute units	16
Core clock speed	2310 MHz	1500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	12 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	360.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	11.53 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.765 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1024
Pixel fill rate	90.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	180.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	107 Watt	120 Watt
Transistor count	5400 million	6,600 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0
OpenCL	2.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	143.9 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2248 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	12000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6