PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 and the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) and has 512 texture shaders and 8 execution units.

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING
AMD Radeon RX 550 (Lexa) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Lexa PRO GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
512 Shader 1408
16 Render Output Units 48
32 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

4 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
112 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 clocks in the base with up to 1.100 GHz. The base frequency of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING is 1.530 GHz.

1.100 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.190 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is 50 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the connector.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

50 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
80 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING supports a maximum of 3 screens.

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

Featureset

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 supports a maximum resolution of 5120x2880 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING is 7680x4320 pixels.

5120x2880 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 is 225 mm long, 128 mm high and 38 mm wide.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING is 190 mm long, 111 mm high and -- wide.

225 mm Length 190 mm
128 mm Height 111 mm
38 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 550 4GB GDDR5 V2 was released in Q2/2017 at a price of 79 $.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 219 $ (Reference).

AXRX 550 4GBD5-DH/OC Part-no 06G-P4-1160-KR
Q2/2017 Release date Q1/2019
79 $ 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)

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 BLACK GAMING
6 GB GDDR5
40 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)

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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