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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1660

Radeon RX 5600 XT
VS
GeForce GTX 1660
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660
TU116

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT with 2304 shaders against the 10 months older GeForce GTX 1660 that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
6 GB GDDR6
VS
6 GB GDDR5
13.0
(Bad)
Value Index
15.4
(Bad)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1660 over RX 5600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Performs better (up to 37%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
  • Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 46 vs 35 FPS
  • 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.2 vs 5 TFLOPS)
  • Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 192.1 GB/s
  • Has 64% more shading units (2304 vs 1408)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 5600 XT
vs
GTX 1660

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
110
61
48
28
81
45
36
24
The Witcher 3
94
75
48
28
74
59
41
21
Counter-Strike 2
154
108
75
36
119
83
60
25
Far Cry 6
89
76
54
29
66
56
44
21
Hogwarts Legacy
56
44
34
15
42
32
23
12
CoD: Modern Warfare III
72
67
43
28
51
42
26
17
Ghost of Tsushima
60
48
32
15
37
30
20
11
Cyberpunk 2077
57
49
25
12
40
36
22
9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
101
88
56
31
68
62
43
20
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 88 64
1080p Ultra 68 49
1440p Ultra 46 35
4K Ultra 25 18
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 5600 XT +37%
6991
GTX 1660
5100
Time Spy 7631 5443
Solar Bay - 18104
Port Royal - 1455
Fire Strike 22323 14207
Wild Life Extreme 14672 10947
Night Raid 86634 66328
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 5600 XT +11%
66629
GTX 1660
60105
Background Blur 123.2 img/sec 107.7 img/sec
Face Detection 71.4 img/sec 58.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.85 Gpixels/sec 2.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.1 Gpixels/sec 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.48 Gpixels/sec 3 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.77 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 253.9 Gpixels/sec 301.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 7670.6 FPS 8078.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 5600 XT
2988
GTX 1660
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 5600 XT +15%
13384
GTX 1660
11610
G2D Mark 871 777
DirectX 11 95 FPS 79 FPS
DirectX 12 52 FPS 49 FPS
GPU Compute 6184 Ops/s 4928 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 4842 & 9475 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 5600 XT
618.03
GTX 1660 +16%
719.36
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 281 & 332 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 5600 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL70675
📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus)Steel Nomad Light7074
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GeForce GTX 1660
No benchmark results yet
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 5600 XT +45%
12529
GTX 1660
8617
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 5600 XT +98%
14594
GTX 1660
7365
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 5600 XT +51%
9434
GTX 1660
6243
Image Classification (SP) 5459 3814
Image Segmentation (HP) 6448 4931
Image Super Resolution (Q) 15013 8081
Face Detection (HP) 17318 8691
Pose Estimation (Q) 62592 33497
Text Classification (SP) 1533 1586
Machine Translation (HP) 3771 2227
Object Detection (SP) 5601 4384
Depth Estimation (Q) 22988 16173
Style Transfer (SP) 120386 72011
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce GTX 1660

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 21, 2020 March 14, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $219
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Turing
GPU Codename Navi 10 TU116
Rival Equivalent - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 9500 or above - Intel Core i5 9500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (70th and 78th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1130 MHz 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 1560 MHz 1785 MHz
Shading Units 2304 1408
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 88
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 22
Tensor Cores No No
Ray-tracing Cores No No
L1 Cache - 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 3MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100 GPixel/s 86 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 225 GTexel/s 157 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 5600 XT +44%
7.2 TFLOPS
GTX 1660
5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 150 W 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 7 nm 12 nm
Die Size 251 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 10 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 39.84 MTr/mm² 21.13 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory Size 6 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2001 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 8000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 5600 XT +50%
288 GB/s
GTX 1660
192.1 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.1 3.0
CUDA - 7.5
Ray Tracing No No
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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