GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.01 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.29 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.16 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 40 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Navi 10 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2560 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
160 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has a turbo clock of 2.010 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is 1.830 GHz.

1.770 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
2.010 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
1.91 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 99 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

225 W TDP 125 W
335 W TDP (up) --
99 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is cooled by a Air cooling.

Windforce (Axial) Fan-Type Axial
3 x 82 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
44 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED MSI Mystic Light

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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 58 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is 58 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

290 mm Length 248 mm
123 mm Height 128 mm
58 mm Width 52 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 974 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, GIGABYTE AORUS Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G was released in Q3/2019.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS published in Q4/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2019 Release date Q4/2019
479 $ Launch Price 229 $ (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)

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.

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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