MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING
vs
Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.79 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.03 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.24 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.53 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is based on the GCN 4 architecture and is equipped with 32 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING GPU Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Based on AMD Radeon RX 570
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip Polaris 20 XL
Turing Architecture GCN 4
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 32
1408 Shader 2048
48 Render Output Units 32
88 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING has a turbo clock of 1.785 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is 1.244 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 1.168 GHz
1.785 GHz Boost Clock 1.244 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING 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 93 °C.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 90 °C.

125 W TDP 150 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 90 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 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 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING is 46 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is 46 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

247 mm Length 170 mm
127 mm Height 112 mm
46 mm Width 36 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
862 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING was released in Q4/2019.

The Sapphire Pulse ITX Radeon RX 570 8G G5 published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no 11266-37
Q4/2019 Release date Q3/2017
229 $ (Reference) Launch Price 169 $
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)

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)

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING
6 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING
6 GB GDDR6
44 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)

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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