Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 1660

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GTX 1660
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2019
GeForce GTX 1660

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5500
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    116%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5500

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660

16% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

GeForce GTX 1660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660

The GeForce GTX 1660 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 1660
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsTU116 ()
Fab Process7 nmvs12 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs284 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs6,600 million
Shaders1408vs1280
Compute Units22vs20
Core clock1670 MHzvs1530 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs88vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 1660
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 1660
TDP150 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs15 Mar 2019

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    59.04 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    85.68 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    142.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    4570.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    77
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    78

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    46
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    59

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    26
  • GeForce GTX 1660
    31

FPS (higher is better)