Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
vs
ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (RDNA 1) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has the Navi 10 XLE graphics chip installed, which is based on the RDNA 1 architecture.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC is based on the graphics chip TU116-300-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE GPU ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Navi 10 XLE GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
RDNA 1 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
64 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 14.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

6 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
14.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
336 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.130 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.620 GHz Boost Clock 1.845 GHz
1.56 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.82 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 160 W.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 125 W.

160 W TDP 125 W
195 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
34 dB Noise (Idle) dB
39 dB Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 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 5600 XT BE is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

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

231 mm Length 206 mm
123 mm Height 124 mm
40 mm Width 46 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has been manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers since Q1/2020.

The ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC came on the market in Q4/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

11296-05-20G Part-no TUF-GTX1660S-O6G-GAMING
Q1/2020 Release date Q4/2019
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $ (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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