NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1785MHz vs 1695MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +15%

5.027 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 1660 +54%

787

A16 PCIe

510

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 16

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

40

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA107

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

Unknown

284 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

120W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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