ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO
vs
MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO and the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and has 1536 texture shaders and 24 execution units.

MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is based on AMD RX Vega 56, which has 3584 shaders and 56 execution units.
ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO GPU MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD RX Vega 56
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Turing Architecture GCN 5
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
1536 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 64
96 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G can access 8 GB HBM2 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 410 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 0.800 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.6 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 1.156 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.156 GHz
1.800 GHz Boost Clock 1.471 GHz
1.77 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has a TDP of 210 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 210 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 37 dB
-- Noise (Load) 49 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version --
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO is 242 mm long, 130 mm high and 53 mm wide.

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G is 270 mm long, 110 mm high and 40 mm wide.

242 mm Length 270 mm
130 mm Height 110 mm
53 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1068 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO was released in Q1/2019 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

The MSI Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost 8G was introduced in Q3/2017 at a price of 399 $ (Reference).

DUAL-GTX1660TI-6G-EVO Part-no --
Q1/2019 Release date Q3/2017
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 14 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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