AMD · RDNA 2
Radeon RX 6500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 6500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660. All released in 2019. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
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NVIDIA · Turing
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
6 GB VRAM120W TDP$219 MSRP2019
Full NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 benchmarks →
*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.
Specs side-by-side
| Spec | Radeon RX 6500 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | — | 6 |
| vram type | — | GDDR5 |
| tdp w | — | 120 |
| cuda cores | — | 1408 |
Synthetic benchmarks
Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.
| Benchmark | Radeon RX 6500 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 |
|---|---|---|
| PassMark G2D Mark | 803 pts | 776 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 7,635 points | 11,614 points |
AI inference (tokens/sec)
Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
- llama3.1:3b: 180.0 tok/s
- qwen1:22b: 50.0 tok/s
- qwen3:0.6b: 47.1 tok/s