XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming has 5120 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.37 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 24.22 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 has 1536 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.77 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.44 TFLOPS.

GPU

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 2 architecture, which has 80 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 is based on the Turing architecture and is equipped with 24 execution units.
XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming GPU MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Navi 21 GPU Chip TU116-400-A1
RDNA 2 Architecture Turing
80 Streaming Multiprocessors 24
5120 Shader 1536
128 Render Output Units 48
320 Texture Units 96
80 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.500GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.500 GHz
16.0 Gbps Memory Speed 12.0 Gbps
512 GB/s Memory bandwidth 288 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming has a turbo clock of 2.365 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 is 1.770 GHz.

1.950 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
2.365 GHz Boost Clock 1.770 GHz
2.14 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 100 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

300 W TDP 120 W
345 W TDP (up) --
100 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

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

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

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

Dimensions

The XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming is 57 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 is 57 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

340 mm Length 205 mm
139 mm Height 126 mm
57 mm Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 684 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 7 nanometer process, XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6900 XT Black Gaming was released in Q4/2020.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 TI VENTUS XS 6G V1 published in Q1/2019 is manufactured with a structure width of 12 nanometers.

RX-69XTACBD9 Part-no --
Q4/2020 Release date Q1/2019
1,199 $ 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)

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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