NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1785MHz vs 1709MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +14%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 +28%

5415

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4207

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +166%

24

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

47

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

73

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 +48%

40

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

73

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 +22%

91

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Jul 2016

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1506 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

10

1408

Shading Units

1280

88

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

48

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

82.03 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GP106

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP106-400-A1

Turing

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

16 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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