Radeon RX 5500 vs GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Radeon RX 5500
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 7 Oct 2019
Radeon RX 5500
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5500
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    129%

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 SUPER

29% higher gaming performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 SUPER
GPU NameNavi 14 (Navi 14 XT)vsTU116 (TU116-300-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs12 nm
Die Size158 mm²vs284 mm²
Transistors6,400 millionvs6,600 million
Shaders1408vs1408
Compute Units22vs22
Core clock1670 MHzvs1530 MHz
ROPs32vs48
TMUs88vs88

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR6
Bus Width128 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5500GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
TDP150 wattsvs125 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2019vs29 Oct 2019

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

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

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5500
    162.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5500
    224.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5500
    5196.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    77
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    90

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    46
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    68

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield V

Ultra Quality, DirectX12, Windows 10x64

  • Radeon RX 5500
    26
  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    32

FPS (higher is better)