NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.39
$ 120.60 significantly less expensive
$ 349.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
4831 points
32% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
106 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
66 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
74 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
50 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points
7528 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
1636.29 points
126% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points
78091 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points
70754 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points
60775 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
76744 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
72572 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
12% slightly higher core clock speed
1365 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
6% slightly higher boost clock speed
1680 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
Identical
192 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
336 GB/s
74% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
33% slightly lower TDP
160 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
6% slightly higher pixel rate
80.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
201.6 Gigatexels/s
28% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS
6.45 TFLOPS
28% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
1920
36% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
120
36% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
Identical
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 594
106th of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 1660 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 2060 beats the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly 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 slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a slightly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 2060 at 160 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.

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