NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +1111%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

0.415 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce GTX 260 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

1008 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1792MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

448bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.9GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

192

88

TMUs

64

48

ROPs

28

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.50 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.15 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.84 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GT200B

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Turing

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

1.3

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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