NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q 6 GB, 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

3% slightly better overall score

3514 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

75 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

52 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

56 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

37 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

5621 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

1382.74 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

67657 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

61701 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

51683 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

64897 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

59548 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

56% significantly higher core clock speed

975 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

50% significantly higher boost clock speed

1185 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

264 GB/s

37% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

50% significantly higher pixel rate

56.88 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

10% slightly higher texture rate

142.2 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

10% slightly better floating point performance

4.55 TFLOPS

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

120

36% 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

133rd of 586

138th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

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 RTX 2060 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 GTX 1660 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 6 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.