MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC
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MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.11 TFLOPS.

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC has 1024 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.79 TFLOPS.

GPU

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

The graphics card MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC GPU MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Based on AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
TU116-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 24 XT
Turing Architecture RDNA 2
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
1408 Shader 1024
48 Render Output Units 32
88 Texture Units 64
0 Raytracing Cores 16

Memory

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

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.250GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.250 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 18.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 144 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 64 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC has a turbo clock of 1.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC is 2.825 GHz.

1.530 GHz Base Clock 2.200 GHz
1.815 GHz Boost Clock 2.825 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 2.69 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC 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 MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.

125 W TDP 107 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 97 °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 VENTUS XS OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

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

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

3 Max. Displays 2
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 1x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

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

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
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
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS OC is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

204 mm Length 172 mm
128 mm Height 112 mm
42 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
700 g Weight 452 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 4

Additional data

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

The MSI Radeon RX 6500 XT MECH 2X 4G OC published in Q1/2022 is manufactured with a structure width of 6 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q4/2019 Release date Q1/2022
229 $ (Reference) Launch Price 199 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 6 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)

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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