NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

128% significantly better overall score

1419 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

29 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

22 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

20 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

17 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

116% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2293 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

350% significantly higher Blender score

167.72 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

17784 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21072 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

117% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

22380 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

19796 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

20845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

1127 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

13% slightly 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

288 GB/s

156% significantly higher memory bandwidth

112.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

100% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

69% significantly higher pixel rate

37.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

70% significantly higher texture rate

75.39 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

69% significantly better floating point performance

2.41 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

49% significantly more shading units

1024

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

145th of 586

239th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2015 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 960 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 960 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 Ti Max-Q also has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 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 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q is better than the GeForce GTX 960.