MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G has 1536 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.77 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.44 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.93 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 9.85 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 40 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Navi 10 XT
Turing Architecture RDNA 1
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 40
1536 Shader 2560
48 Render Output Units 64
96 Texture Units 160
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 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 448 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G has a turbo clock of 1.770 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 1.925 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.670 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.925 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.82 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 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 5700 XT 8G is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 99 °C.

120 W TDP 235 W
-- TDP (up) 335 W
95 °C Tjunction max 99 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 44 dB

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
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 / Encode

Dimensions

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

204 mm Length 255 mm
128 mm Height 135 mm
42 mm Width 46 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
669 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G was released in Q1/2019.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G published in Q3/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q1/2019 Release date Q3/2019
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 429 $
12 nm Structure size 7 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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