AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 5600 XT with 2304 shaders against the 3 months older GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER that utilizes 22 pipelines and 1408 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
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)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 5600 XT
- Performs better (up to 23%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 7 nm process technology
- 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (7.2 vs 5 TFLOPS)
- Shows 15% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 46 vs 40 FPS
- Has 64% more shading units (2304 vs 1408)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 110 61 48 28 |
86 51 43 25 |
| The Witcher 3 | 94 75 48 28 |
83 65 47 26 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 154 108 75 36 |
133 93 68 29 |
| Far Cry 6 | 89 76 54 29 |
70 62 46 24 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 56 44 34 15 |
46 36 26 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 72 67 43 28 |
55 44 31 19 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 60 48 32 15 |
41 34 26 12 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 57 49 25 12 |
44 40 22 11 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 101 88 56 31 |
77 71 47 23 |
| 1080p High | 88 | 71 |
| 1080p Ultra | 68 | 55 |
| 1440p Ultra | 46 | 40 |
| 4K Ultra | 25 | 20 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 7631 | 6042 |
| Solar Bay | - | 19265 |
| Port Royal | - | 1547 |
| Fire Strike | 22323 | 16189 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 14672 | 12334 |
| Night Raid | 86634 | 74735 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 123.2 img/sec | 122.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 71.4 img/sec | 68.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.85 Gpixels/sec | 2.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.1 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.48 Gpixels/sec | 3.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.62 Gpixels/sec | 0.86 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 253.9 Gpixels/sec | 273.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7670.6 FPS | 8476.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 871 | 807 |
| DirectX 11 | 95 FPS | 104 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 52 FPS | 50 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6187 Ops/s | 5033 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 5600 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus) | GeekBench | 70675 |
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus) | Steel Nomad Light | 7074 |
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-02 (TEST) | Cinebench 2024 | 3271 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 5459 | 4278 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 6448 | 5856 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 15013 | 9561 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 17318 | 9830 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 62592 | 36109 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1533 | 1858 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3771 | 3286 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 5601 | 5151 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 22988 | 18021 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 120386 | 73708 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 5600 XT and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 21, 2020 | October 29, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $279 | $229 |
| 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 (69th and 74th 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)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 150 W | 125 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 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 6 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 12000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
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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