NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 125W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1785MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +108%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960

2283

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +162%

5987

Blender

GeForce GTX 960

189

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +365%

880

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960

46

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +176%

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960

10

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +160%

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960

25

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +108%

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

35

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +125%

79

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 960

70

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +154%

178

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

125W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

TU116

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

284 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

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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