MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 has 1536 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.83 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.62 TFLOPS.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition has 3584 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.47 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 10.54 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition is based on the GCN 5 architecture and is equipped with 56 execution units.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 GPU PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on AMD RX Vega 56
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip Vega 10 XL
Turing Architecture GCN 5
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 56
1536 Shader 3584
48 Render Output Units 64
96 Texture Units 256
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition has a 8 GB large HBM2 graphics memory and the memory clock is 0.800GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type HBM2
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 0.800 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 1.6 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 2048 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 has a turbo clock of 1.830 GHz. The turbo frequency of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition is 1.471 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.156 GHz
1.830 GHz Boost Clock 1.471 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 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 PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition 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 100 °C.

120 W TDP 210 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 100 °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 OCV1 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition supports HDCP in version -- and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
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 OCV1 is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

205 mm Length 280 mm
126 mm Height 127 mm
42 mm Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
684 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 TI VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 was released in Q1/2019.

The PowerColor Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition published in Q3/2017 is manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers.

-- Part-no AXRX VEGA 56 NANO 8GBHBM2
Q1/2019 Release date Q3/2017
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 399 $ (Reference)
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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