NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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

3755 points
360% significantly better overall score
816 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS
66 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
18 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS
48 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
13 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS
28 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points
359% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1317 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points
533% significantly higher Blender score
122.56 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points
659% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
8583 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points
433% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
11381 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points
420% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10693 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points
464% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
11353 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points
410% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
11858 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
56% significantly higher core clock speed
980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
72% 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

336 GB/s
133% significantly higher memory bandwidth
144.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W
11% slightly lower TDP
140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
315% significantly higher pixel rate
20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
90% significantly higher texture rate
82.56 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
153% significantly better floating point performance
1.98 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
46% significantly more shading units
960

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
100% significantly more render output processors
24

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 586
277th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 660 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 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 1660 SUPER has a slightly lower TDP at 125 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER over the GeForce GTX 660.

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