NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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

$ 191.88
$ 207.12 significantly less expensive
$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3755 points
52% significantly better overall score
2457 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS
37 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
47 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
40 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
33 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
377.89 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
34034 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
36416 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
37241 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
36494 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
35697 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
1% slightly higher core clock speed
1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
4% slightly higher boost clock speed
1709 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
Identical
6 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

336 GB/s
74% significantly higher memory bandwidth
192.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W
120 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
4% slightly higher pixel rate
82.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
14% slightly higher texture rate
136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
24% slightly better floating point performance
4.04 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
10% slightly more shading units
1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
10% slightly more texture mapping units
80

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586
180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October
2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 1060 6GB comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

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, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB.

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