MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.24 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 4.53 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.83 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.16 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2048 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 48
128 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 has a 6 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.000GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G has a turbo clock of 1.244 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is 1.830 GHz.

1.178 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.244 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G 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 90 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

150 W TDP 130 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 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
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 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

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

246 mm Length 206 mm
130 mm Height 127 mm
39 mm Width 43 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
622 g Weight 664 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G was released in Q4/2017.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q4/2017 Release date Q1/2019
169 $ Launch Price 219 $ (Reference)
14 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.

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)

MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
26 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1
6 GB GDDR5
31 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
50 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1
6 GB GDDR5
56 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G MSI Radeon RX 570 Armor 8G
8 GB GDDR5
73 fps (avg)
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1 MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS 6G OCV1
6 GB GDDR5
79 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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