Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus
vs
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus and the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and has 1408 texture shaders and 22 execution units.

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE is based on AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, which has 4608 shaders and 72 execution units.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus GPU Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Based on AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 21 XT
Turing Architecture RDNA 2
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 72
1408 Shader 4608
48 Render Output Units 128
88 Texture Units 288
0 Raytracing Cores 72

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE can access 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 16.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 512 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus clocks in the base with up to 1.530 GHz. The base frequency of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE is 1.925 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 1.925 GHz
1.785 GHz Boost Clock 2.360 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.11 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus is 125 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE has a TDP of 300 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

125 W TDP 300 W
-- TDP (up) 345 W
93 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE has 3 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 1 x 85 mm
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 36 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 Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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 2x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports 1

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus is 168 mm long, 126 mm high and -- wide.

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE is 310 mm long, 135 mm high and 55 mm wide.

168 mm Length 310 mm
126 mm Height 135 mm
-- Width 55 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1240 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Pegasus was released in Q4/2019 at a price of 229 $ (Reference).

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE was introduced in Q1/2021 at a price of 769 $.

NE6166S018J9-161F Part-no 11304-01-20G
Q4/2019 Release date Q1/2021
229 $ (Reference) Launch Price 769 $
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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT SE
16 GB GDDR6
107 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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

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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