NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 335.00
$ 229.39
$ 105.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points
3653 points
75% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS
82 FPS
38 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS
49 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS
60 FPS
33 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS
37 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points
5419 points
49% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points
722.48 points
94% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points
60503 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points
55712 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points
51028 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points
59886 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points
56143 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz
11% slightly higher core clock speed
1530 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
Identical
6 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
Identical
120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586
133rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1060 and the GeForce GTX 1660 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 is better than the GeForce GTX 1060.

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