NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 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 RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1785MHz vs 1650MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 184W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +42%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +34%

8024

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5987

Blender

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +115%

1893

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

880

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +39%

177

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

127

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +15%

30

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +15%

60

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +15%

91

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +9%

45

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +10%

86

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +20%

117

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

57

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +5%

60

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +13%

86

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

76

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

174

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +2%

178

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Graphics Card

Dec 2021

Release Date

Oct 2019

GeForce 20

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1470 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

34

SM Count

22

2176

Shading Units

1408

136

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

48

272

Tensor Cores

-

34

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

79.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

224.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

14.36 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

7.181 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

224.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

184W

TDP

125W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU106

GPU Name

TU116

TU106-300-KA-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

12 nm

10.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

445 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

7.5

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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