AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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).
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500
- Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
- Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 1530 MHz
- Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1785 MHz
- 4.5x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 4813 vs 1067
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 7 Oct 2019 vs 14 March 2019 |
| Core clock speed | 1670 MHz vs 1530 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz vs 1785 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4813 vs 1067 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
- Around 25% lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 150 Watt
- Around 33% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11659 vs 8788
- Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 777 vs 740
- Around 31% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 57946 vs 44388
- Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14998 vs 12069
- Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14998 vs 12069
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 120 Watt vs 150 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 11659 vs 8788 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 777 vs 740 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 57946 vs 44388 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 14998 vs 12069 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3359 vs 3351 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 14998 vs 12069 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3359 vs 3351 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
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| Name | AMD Radeon RX 5500 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 8788 | 11659 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 740 | 777 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 44388 | 57946 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 12069 | 14998 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3717 | 3717 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 | 3359 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 12069 | 14998 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3717 | 3717 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 | 3359 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 4813 | 1067 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 189.842 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1902.867 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 13.408 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 116.183 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 875.838 |
Compare specifications (specs)
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| Architecture | RDNA | Turing |
| Launch date | 7 Oct 2019 | 14 March 2019 |
| Place in performance rating | 255 | 256 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Code name | TU116 | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $219 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1845 MHz | 1785 MHz |
| Compute units | 22 | |
| Core clock speed | 1670 MHz | 1530 MHz |
| Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance | 10.4 TFLOPs | |
| Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 5.2 TFLOPs | |
| Pixel fill rate | 59 GP/s | |
| Stream Processors | 1408 | |
| Texture fill rate | 162.36 GT/s | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 150 Watt | 120 Watt |
| Transistor count | 6400 million | 6,600 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Recommended system power (PSU) | 550 Watt | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1 x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | |
| Memory bandwidth | 224 GB/s | |
| Memory bus width | 128 bit | |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Memory clock speed | 8004 MHz | |
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| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| DisplayPort count | 1 | |
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API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
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