AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
Navi 24
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6500 XT 4 GB with 1024 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months older GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB 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 6500 XT
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- 16% higher maximum theoretical performance (5.8 vs 5 TFLOPS)
- Ray-tracing support with 16 dedicated RT cores
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
- Performs better (up to 19%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 33% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 40 vs 30 FPS
- Includes 2 GB more video memory
- Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 336 vs 143.9 GB/s
- Achieves 26% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (67K vs 53K)
- Has 38% more shading units (1408 vs 1024)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 84 46 33 22 |
86 51 43 25 |
| The Witcher 3 | 60 50 28 14 |
83 65 47 26 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 95 67 44 18 |
133 93 68 29 |
| Far Cry 6 | 64 54 40 16 |
70 62 46 24 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 36 28 21 12 |
46 36 26 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 54 42 33 18 |
55 44 31 19 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 39 29 21 10 |
41 34 26 12 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 36 30 18 - |
44 40 22 11 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 70 61 36 19 |
77 71 47 23 |
| 1080p High | 60 | 71 |
| 1080p Ultra | 45 | 55 |
| 1440p Ultra | 30 | 40 |
| 4K Ultra | 15 | 20 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 4942 | 6042 |
| Solar Bay | 20010 | 19265 |
| Port Royal | 368 | 1547 |
| Fire Strike | 15575 | 16189 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 8990 | 12334 |
| Night Raid | 65355 | 74735 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 130.3 img/sec | 122.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 70.1 img/sec | 68.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1.59 Gpixels/sec | 2.56 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 2.21 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 2.02 Gpixels/sec | 3.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.65 Gpixels/sec | 0.86 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 223 Gpixels/sec | 273.3 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 7470.5 FPS | 8476.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 817 | 807 |
| DirectX 11 | 90 FPS | 104 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 38 FPS | 50 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 4296 Ops/s | 5033 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6500 XT
No benchmark results yet
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) | 3867 | 4278 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 5136 | 5856 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 11758 | 9561 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 14844 | 9830 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 42787 | 36109 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 1986 | 1858 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2665 | 3286 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 4251 | 5151 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 19707 | 18021 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 101802 | 73708 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6500 XT and GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 19, 2022 | October 29, 2019 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $199 | $229 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Turing |
| GPU Codename | Navi 24 | TU116 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 3050 | - Radeon RX 5600 XT |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12400 or above | - Intel Core i5 9500 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (79th and 75th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2310 MHz | 1530 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2815 MHz | 1785 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1408 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 88 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 22 |
| Tensor Cores | No | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 16 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 64KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 1024KB shared | 1536KB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 90 GPixel/s | 86 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 180 GTexel/s | 157 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 107 W | 125 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 12 nm |
| Die Size | 107 mm² | 284 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 5 billion | 6 billion |
| Transistor Density | 46.73 MTr/mm² | 21.13 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2248 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 64-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 7.5 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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Total votes: 30