Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated220
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.67
Power efficiencyno data15.90
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTU116BNavi 24
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date15 May 2019 (5 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 $199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores12801024
Core clock speed1455 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHz2815 MHz
Number of transistors6,600 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data107 Watt
Texture fill rate127.2180.2
Floating-point processing power4.07 TFLOPS5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs8064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s143.9 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.2
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2019 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm

RX 6500 XT has an age advantage of 2 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Mobile
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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
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