GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2460MHz vs 1785MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (272.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4060
+200%
15110
GeForce GTX 1660
5027
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 4060
+94%
10615
GeForce GTX 1660
5444
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 4060
+101%
4959
GeForce GTX 1660
2465
Blender
GeForce RTX 4060
+377%
3363
GeForce GTX 1660
705
OctaneBench
GeForce RTX 4060
+213%
351
GeForce GTX 1660
112
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+91%
46
GeForce GTX 1660
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+100%
94
GeForce GTX 1660
47
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+127%
166
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+62%
65
GeForce GTX 1660
40
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+53%
112
GeForce GTX 1660
73
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+78%
162
GeForce GTX 1660
91
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce RTX 4060
+64%
82
GeForce GTX 1660
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce RTX 4060
+73%
90
GeForce GTX 1660
52
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce RTX 4060
+21%
190
GeForce GTX 1660
156
Graphics Card
May 2023
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1830 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
2460 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
2125 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
272.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
24
SM Count
22
3072
Shading Units
1408
96
TMUs
88
48
ROPs
48
96
Tensor Cores
-
24
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
24 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
118.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
236.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
15.11 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
15.11 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
236.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
115W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD107
GPU Name
TU116
AD107-400-A1
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
12 nm
18.9 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
159 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
7.5
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
