NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +953%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

22

192

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

28

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

TU116

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

7.5

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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