NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 229.39

$ 110.40 significantly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

6694 points

83% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

161 FPS

79 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

77 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

113 FPS

53 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

61 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points

134% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

3124.65 points

332% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

101567 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

99687 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

1925 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

2075 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

66% significantly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

54% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

143% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

386% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408

5888

318% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

109% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2023 May

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 4060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the GeForce GTX 1660 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 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 RTX 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1660 has a significantly lower TDP at 120 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce GTX 1660.