MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G
vs
ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 5.71 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.82 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.11 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G GPU ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G has a turbo clock of 1.366 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini is 1.815 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.366 GHz Boost Clock 1.815 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.79 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 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 ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

185 W TDP 125 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 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 580 Armor MK2 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini 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 ASUS Aura Sync

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 580 Armor MK2 8G is 40 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini is 40 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

270 mm Length 197 mm
130 mm Height 121 mm
40 mm Width 39 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
892 g Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 580 Armor MK2 8G was released in Q3/2018.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Mini published in Q4/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no DUAL-GTX1660S-6G-MINI
Q3/2018 Release date Q4/2019
229 $ Launch Price 229 $ (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.

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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