Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
vs
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.83 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.16 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 has 1792 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.49 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 8.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 28 execution units.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC GPU Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Based on AMD Radeon RX 6600
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 23 XL
Turing Architecture RDNA 2
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
1408 Shader 1792
48 Render Output Units 64
88 Texture Units 112
0 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
192 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC has a turbo clock of 1.830 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 is 2.491 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 1.626 GHz
1.830 GHz Boost Clock 2.491 GHz
1.79 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 2.04 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 95 °C.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

120 W TDP 132 W
-- TDP (up) 140 W
95 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x 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

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

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

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

235 mm Length 193 mm
115 mm Height 120 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 8

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC was released in Q1/2019.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

NE51660S18J9-1161X Part-no 11304-05-10G
Q1/2019 Release date Q1/2022
219 $ (Reference) Launch Price 329 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 7 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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
24 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
31 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
50 fps (avg)

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)

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
28 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
6 GB GDDR5
41 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
64 fps (avg)

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)

Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
6 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
44 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
6 GB GDDR5
56 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
98 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
6 GB GDDR5
79 fps (avg)
Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
127 fps (avg)

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

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire Radeon RX 6600
8 GB GDDR6
98120

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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