NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 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

2077 points

154% significantly better overall score

816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

176% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

202% significantly higher Blender score

122.56 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

5449 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

11381 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10693 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4311 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11353 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

74% significantly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

100% significantly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

16% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

278th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 660 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1060 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 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 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

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