NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 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

$ 258.09
$ 61.90 slightly less expensive
$ 319.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

35 %
150% significantly better overall score
14 %

Flux Core frame rate

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

80 FPS
51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

48 FPS
27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

59 FPS
40 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
19 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

36 FPS
19 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
17 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6017
163% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
2286
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

815.76
433% significantly higher Blender score
152.84
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154
266% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
17784
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772
188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
21072
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624
148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
22380
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

63236
266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
17268
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60986
174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
22233

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
35% slightly higher core clock speed
1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
51% significantly higher boost clock speed
1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB
49% significantly more memory
4 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s
199% significantly higher memory bandwidth
112.2 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
127% significantly higher pixel rate
37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
108% significantly higher texture rate
75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
108% significantly better floating point performance
2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
37% slightly more shading units
1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
37% slightly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
49% significantly more render output processors
32

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 557
165th of 557

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

October 2019
January 2015

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
4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 960 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a slightly 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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 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 960 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is faster than the GeForce GTX 960.

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