NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 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 RTX 4060 Ti

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3236 points

8910 points

175% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

73 FPS

215 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

46 FPS

103 FPS

57 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

54 FPS

152 FPS

98 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

34 FPS

83 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

756.05 points

3833.53 points

407% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

56770 points

130295 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54216 points

123771 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1140 MHz

2310 MHz

102% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1335 MHz

2535 MHz

89% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

8 GiB

33% slightly more memory

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

Identical

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

60 W

166% significantly lower TDP

160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64.08 Gigapixels/s

121.7 Gigapixels/s

89% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

128.2 Gigatexels/s

344.8 Gigatexels/s

168% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

4.10 TFLOPS

22.06 TFLOPS

437% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1536

4352

183% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

136

41% 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

145th of 586

44th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 April

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

12.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 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 RTX 4060 Ti 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 the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti has slightly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q.