NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 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

6% slightly better overall score

3514 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

84 FPS

9 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

75 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

50 FPS

52 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

61 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

38 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

5621 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

776.88 points

1382.74 points

77% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

65154 points

67657 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60772 points

61701 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

55624 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

51683 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

64068 points

64897 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

60513 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

59548 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

1185 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

27% slightly higher memory bandwidth

264 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

56.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

4.55 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

1920

36% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

36% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 586

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 October

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER beats the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in gaming performance.

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

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER at 125 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.