MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.61 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 10.68 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 has 1408 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.79 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.03 TFLOPS.

GPU

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 22 execution units.
MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Navi 23 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Turing
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2048 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
128 Texture Units 88
32 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G has a turbo clock of 2.607 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 is 1.785 GHz.

1.968 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
2.607 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
2.43 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 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 100 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 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.

160 W TDP 125 W
170 W TDP (up) --
100 °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 6600 XT GAMING X 8G are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 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 6600 XT GAMING X 8G supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
MSI Mystic Light 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
Decode AV1 No
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G is 51 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 is 51 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

277 mm Length 205 mm
130 mm Height 127 mm
51 mm Width 43 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
882 g Weight 729 g
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G was released in Q3/2021.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER VENTUS XS V2 published in Q4/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

-- Part-no --
Q3/2021 Release date Q4/2019
379 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $ (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)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
36 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G
8 GB GDDR6
58 fps (avg)

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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