NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and AMD Radeon HD 6550A 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 10070.5x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
  • 2.9x more pipelines: 1408 vs 480
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
  • 18x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12750 vs 708
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 806 vs 609
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1408 vs 480
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12750 vs 708
PassMark - G2D Mark 806 vs 609

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

  • 3.6x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 125 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12750
708
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
806
609
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 6550A
PassMark - G3D Mark 12750 708
PassMark - G2D Mark 806 609
Geekbench - OpenCL 62663
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5990

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Essentials

Architecture Turing TeraScale 2
Code name TU116 Pinewood
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 7 February 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 218 221
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz
Core clock speed 1530 MHz 550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 40 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408 480
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 627 million
Floating-point performance 624.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Length 9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 DDR3
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz