Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G
vs
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G and the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and has 2560 texture shaders and 40 execution units.

Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660, which has 1408 shaders and 22 execution units.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G GPU Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Navi 10 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
40 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2560 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
160 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

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

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G clocks in the base with up to 1.770 GHz. The base frequency of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is 1.530 GHz.

1.770 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
2.010 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
1.91 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.79 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 265 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

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

265 W TDP 120 W
335 W TDP (up) --
99 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
1 x 87 mm Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
44 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 Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC supports a maximum of 3 screens.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) 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 / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G is 305 mm long, 135 mm high and 49 mm wide.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC is 235 mm long, 115 mm high and -- wide.

305 mm Length 235 mm
135 mm Height 115 mm
49 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G was released in Q3/2019 at a price of 449 $.

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 Ghost OC was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 219 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no NE51660S18J9-1161X
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2019
449 $ Launch Price 219 $ (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)

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)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

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.

3840x2160 (2160p)

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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