Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 and the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which has 1536 shaders and 24 execution units.
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G
AMD Radeon RX 580 (36 CU) Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Polaris 20 XT GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
2304 Shader 1536
32 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 96
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 has 4 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G can access 6 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

4 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
7.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
224 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 clocks in the base with up to 1.257 GHz. The base frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G is 1.500 GHz.

1.257 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
1.340 GHz Boost Clock 1.770 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

225 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G supports a maximum of 3 screens.

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

Featureset

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 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 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 is 230 mm long, 125 mm high and 40 mm wide.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G is 243 mm long, 129 mm high and 42 mm wide.

230 mm Length 243 mm
125 mm Height 129 mm
40 mm Width 42 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 668 g
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4G G5 V2 was released in Q4/2018 at a price of 229 $.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI ARMOR 6G was introduced in Q1/2019 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

11265-10 Part-no --
Q4/2018 Release date Q1/2019
229 $ Launch Price 279 $ (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)

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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