ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition
vs
ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT (RDNA 2) and has 4 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 144 GB/s.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition has the TU116-400-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Turing architecture.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is based on the graphics chip Navi 24 XT, which comes from the RDNA 2 architecture.
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition GPU ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Navi 24 XT
Turing Architecture RDNA 2
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
1536 Shader 1024
48 Render Output Units 32
96 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 16

Memory

The graphics memory of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition clocks at 1.500 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 12.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is 18.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.250 GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.250 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 18.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 144 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 2.200 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 2.815 GHz
1.82 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.61 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 120 W.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 107 W.

120 W TDP 107 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 97 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB has 1 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 3 screens can be operated with the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB supports the operation of a maximum of 2 monitors.

3 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 4 Lanes interface.

206 mm Length 179 mm
124 mm Height 124 mm
46 mm Width 40 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 385 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 TI EVO OC Edition has been manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers since Q4/2021.

The ASRock Radeon RX 6500 XT Challenger ITX 4GB came on the market in Q1/2022 and will have a structure width of 6 nanometers manufactured.

TUF-GTX1660TI-O6G-EVO-GAMING Part-no RX6500XT CLI 4G
Q4/2021 Release date Q1/2022
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 6 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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

1920x1080 (1080p)

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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