MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G and the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT and has 1408 texture shaders and 22 execution units.

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
1408 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 48
88 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G clocks in the base with up to 1.647 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING is 1.530 GHz.

1.647 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
1.73 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.79 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G is 130 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

130 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING 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
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
39 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 MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING 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 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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 MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G is 247 mm long, 128 mm high and 47 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING is 268 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

247 mm Length 268 mm
128 mm Height 111 mm
47 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
869 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G was released in Q3/2019 at a price of 169 $ (Reference).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC ULTRA GAMING was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 219 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no 06G-P4-1167-KR
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2019
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 219 $ (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)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming 4G
4 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

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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