NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 25.61 slightly less expensive

$ 255.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

251% significantly better overall score

1038 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

185% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1900 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

487% significantly higher Blender score

122.99 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15998 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18233 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

18345 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16999 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

1024 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

1188 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

2 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

192.1 GB/s

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

90 W

33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

125% significantly higher pixel rate

38.02 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

175% significantly higher texture rate

57.02 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

175% significantly better floating point performance

1.82 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

83% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

83% 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

133rd of 586

261st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2015 August

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

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GTX 950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

Our database shows that 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 950 has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950.