6GB Performance
On the previous page, we looked at 8GB+ video cards, now it is time to cover the 6GB video cards we have in our midst. This would be the XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT THICC II Pro 6GB, ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB and MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GAMING X 6GB. All three video cards are retail factory overclocked video cards.
1440p
At 1440p the highest possible setting we could enable on these 6GB video cards was “Ultra” settings. We could not enable Nightmare or Ultra Nightmare as it exceeded the VRAM limitation.
The XFX Radeon RX 5600 XT and the ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 1660 Ti are dead-on even in performance at 85FPS average. This performance level is playable. The only thing to tip the scale either way here would be a different factory overclock, or manual overclock, but both seem to be evenly matched at 1440p in this game.
The MSI GTX 1660 SUPER also seems to be right up there and similar in performance. It could be a VRAM bottleneck though, so we will have to see what happens at 1080p below. But at 1440p all three exhibits the same playable performance, the same gameplay experience, and playable settings.
1080p
Ok, at 1080p we are now seeing some big differences in performance. We are running a lower resolution, but still “Ultra” settings. At this lower resolution the VRAM requirement goes down on capacity. This extra VRAM room the game has to move has made a difference in how the video cards perform. It seems at “Ultra” at 1440p they were “VRAM bottlenecked” it turns out.
The GTX 1660 Ti is 7% faster than the GTX 1660 SUPER. The GTX 1660 SUPER is 19% faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT. Once again, we see AMD GPUs falling behind the NVIDIA counterparts in this game. Though all three video cards are definitely playable in this game at these settings and the gameplay experience is the same. The slowest card here is pulling over 100FPS average, so you really can’t complain.
Remember what we said about the 8GB Radeon RX 5500 XT though? On the previous page, we saw that it was playable at over 80FPS at 1080p in “Ultra Nightmare” settings. We can run “Ultra Nightmare” on it because it has 8GB of VRAM. However, we cannot run that setting on the Radeon RX 5600 XT only because it has 6GB of VRAM, not 8GB. Though it certainly has the performance to pull it off, we are artificially limited to the gameplay experience in this game on the Radeon RX 5600 XT because of this game VRAM limitation setting.