Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: Radeon RX 6500 XT 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.

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-05-27. Price and availability subject to change.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRadeon RX 6500 XTNVIDIA 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.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 6500 XTNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
3DMark Fire Strike 6,850 pts
PassMark G2D Mark 817 pts776 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 9,634 pts11,614 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.

Radeon RX 6500 XT

  • qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

  • llama3.1:3b: 180.0 tok/s
  • qwen1:22b: 50.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:0.6b: 47.1 tok/s

All NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 AI benchmarks →

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