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

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

445% significantly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

60 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

44 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4964 points

302% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1232 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

441% significantly higher Blender score

139.59 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

61528 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

11818 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54310 points

343% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12257 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

48658 points

359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10582 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

390% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

11578 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

468% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9535 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1176 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

259% significantly higher memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

8% slightly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

240% significantly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

172% significantly higher texture rate

47.04 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

172% significantly better floating point performance

1.50 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

139% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

145th of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2015 March

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 960M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in gaming.

Our database shows that 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 4 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a slightly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

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