GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G and the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Navi 10 XLE GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS can access 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G clocks in the base with up to 1.130 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is 1.530 GHz.

1.130 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.560 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
1.38 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G is 160 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS has a TDP of 125 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

160 W TDP 125 W
195 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
28 dB Noise (Idle) dB
34 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 GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS supports a maximum of 3 screens.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x 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 Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G is 228 mm long, 118 mm high and 41 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS is 248 mm long, 128 mm high and 52 mm wide.

228 mm Length 248 mm
118 mm Height 128 mm
41 mm Width 52 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 974 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5600 XT Windforce 6G was released in Q1/2020 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING Z PLUS was introduced in Q4/2019 at a price of 229 $ (Reference).

GV-R56XTWF2-6GD Part-no --
Q1/2020 Release date Q4/2019
279 $ (Reference) 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)

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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