NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5GB, 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

3653 points

49% significantly better overall score

2438 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

10 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

39 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

31 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

32 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

324.97 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

30206 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

33671 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

36656 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

35111 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

33988 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

1% slightly higher core clock speed

1506 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

1709 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

20% slightly larger memory bus width

160 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s

19% slightly higher memory bandwidth

160.2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

25% slightly higher pixel rate

68.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

14% slightly higher texture rate

136.7 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

14% slightly better floating point performance

4.38 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

10% slightly more shading units

1280

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

20% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

181st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2017 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GTX 1060 5GB comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 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 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.

In addition, both the GeForce GTX 1660 and the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB have an identical TDP. 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 is faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 5GB.