Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0)
vs
EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) is based on the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (RDNA 2) and has 16 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 512 GB/s.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) has the Navi 21 graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 2 architecture.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC is based on the graphics chip TU116-300-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) GPU EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Navi 21 GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Turing
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
5120 Shader 1408
128 Render Output Units 48
320 Texture Units 88
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 16.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC is 8.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.000 GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.825 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
2.365 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
2.14 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.79 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 363 W.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

363 W TDP 120 W
390 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) is equipped with a total of 3 Axial main fans.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC has 1 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 100 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0).

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

310 mm Length 190 mm
134 mm Height 111 mm
55 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6900 XT SE (Rev 2.0) has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q2/2021.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 XC OC came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

11308-03-20G Part-no 06G-P4-1163-KR
Q2/2021 Release date Q1/2019
999 $ (Reference) 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)

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)

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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