NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1789 points

119% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

37 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

30 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

25 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

23 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3292 points

149% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

347.28 points

183% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

28312 points

229% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29934 points

163% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32085 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32446 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

29492 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1480 MHz

51% significantly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1480 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

Identical

192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.2 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

71.04 Gigapixels/s

244% significantly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

118.4 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

82.56 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

3.79 TFLOPS

91% significantly better floating point performance

1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1280

33% slightly more shading units

960

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 586

278th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 660 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 660 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 80 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 660.