The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 22 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is based on the RDNA 2 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
Memory
Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Clock
1.750 GHz
2.250 GHz
Memory Speed
14.0 Gbps
18.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
336 GB/s
144 GB/s
Memory Interface
192 bit
64 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is equipped with a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.750 GHz clocks.
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT has a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.250GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Base Clock
1.530 GHz
2.200 GHz
Boost Clock
1.785 GHz
2.815 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
--
2.61 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a turbo clock of 1.785 GHz. The turbo frequency of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is 2.815 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
TDP
125 W
107 W
Tjunction max
93 °C
97 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin
1 x 6-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 93 °C.
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 97 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER are cooled with a Air cooling.
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Max. Displays
3
2
HDCP
2.2
2.3
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
--
DisplayPort
1x DP 1.4a
--
DVI
1
--
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
12_2 (Ultimate)
Raytracing
No
Yes
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
No
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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.
Dimensions
Dimensions
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Length
145 mm
--
Height
111 mm
--
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +22.4 %
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.
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.
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.
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.
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