MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
vs
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G has 1408 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.85 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.20 TFLOPS.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB has 1280 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.76 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 4.51 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 1 architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 10 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G GPU KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Pascal
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
1408 Shader 1280
32 Render Output Units 48
88 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.002 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 Mech 4G has a turbo clock of 1.845 GHz. The turbo frequency of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB is 1.759 GHz.

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.544 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.759 GHz
1.72 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G 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 KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.

130 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
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 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB 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 No
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

215 mm Length 268 mm
128 mm Height 139 mm
40 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
705 g Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G was released in Q3/2019.

The KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers.

-- Part-no 60NRH7DVM6EK
Q3/2019 Release date Q3/2016
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
7 nm Structure size 16 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 Mech 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
4 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
4 GB GDDR6
38 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)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
4 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
4 GB GDDR6
56 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
56 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G MSI Radeon RX 5500 XT Mech 4G
4 GB GDDR6
79 fps (avg)
KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB KFA2 GeForce GTX 1060 EXOC 6GB
6 GB GDDR5
75 fps (avg)

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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