GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has 1536 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.79 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.49 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.37 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU)
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 20 XT
Turing Architecture GCN 4
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
1536 Shader 2304
48 Render Output Units 32
96 Texture Units 144
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 256 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has a turbo clock of 1.785 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is 1.366 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.257 GHz
1.785 GHz Boost Clock 1.366 GHz
1.77 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G 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 Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

120 W TDP 225 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 95 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 36 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 is 36 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

170 mm Length 230 mm
121 mm Height 125 mm
36 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G was released in Q1/2019.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G G5 published in Q4/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

GV-N166TIXOC-6GD Part-no 11265-05 / 11265-33
Q1/2019 Release date Q4/2017
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $
12 nm Structure size 14 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)

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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