ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition and the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT and has 2560 texture shaders and 40 execution units.

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Navi 22 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Turing
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2560 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
160 Texture Units 88
40 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 384 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
384 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition clocks in the base with up to 2.321 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G is 1.530 GHz.

2.321 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
2.622 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
2.53 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition is 230 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

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

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G supports a maximum of 3 screens.

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

Featureset

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync 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
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition is 322 mm long, 152 mm high and 58 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G is 178 mm long, 126 mm high and 41 mm wide.

322 mm Length 178 mm
152 mm Height 126 mm
58 mm Width 41 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 561 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 6700 XT OC Edition was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 479 $ (Reference).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 AERO ITX 6G was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 219 $ (Reference).

TUF-RX6700XT-O12G-GAMING Part-no --
Q1/2021 Release date Q1/2019
479 $ (Reference) Launch Price 219 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 12 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.

2560x1440 (1440p)

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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