Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (RDNA 1) and has 4 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G has the Navi 14 XTX graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 1 architecture.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is based on the graphics chip TU116-400-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G
AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Navi 14 XTX GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
22 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
1408 Shader 1536
32 Render Output Units 48
88 Texture Units 96
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 12.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.500 GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.607 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.845 GHz Boost Clock 1.785 GHz
1.74 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.77 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 135 W.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

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

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is equipped with a total of 1 Axial main fans.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G has 1 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 85 mm Fan 1 1 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
47 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

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 3x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 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 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
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 8 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

177 mm Length 170 mm
102 mm Height 121 mm
38 mm Width 36 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5500 XT SF 4G has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q3/2019.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 TI MINI ITX OC 6G came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

11295-07-20G Part-no GV-N166TIXOC-6GD
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2019
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 279 $ (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)

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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