NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 179.57 significantly less expensive

$ 408.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

103% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

37 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

26 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

26 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

22 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

91% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

311.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

235% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

18049 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

165% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

21004 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

21940 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

23273 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

24865 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

77% significantly higher core clock speed

863 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

97% significantly higher boost clock speed

902 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

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s

288.4 GB/s

50% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

108% significantly lower TDP

250 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

97% significantly higher pixel rate

43.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

173.2 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

20% slightly better floating point performance

4.16 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

2304

63% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

192

118% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

221st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GTX 780 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 780 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 also has a significantly 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 780 at 250 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 is faster than the GeForce GTX 780.