NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 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

3792 points

3% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS

Identical

82 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

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

58 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

39 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points

1340.13 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points

64172 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

68305 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

50239 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

68305 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

50377 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz

155% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

1215 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

288 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

60 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s

10% slightly higher pixel rate

77.76 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s

7% slightly higher texture rate

145.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

5.03 TFLOPS

7% slightly better floating point performance

4.67 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

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

128th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

2019 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 1660 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that 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 Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 60 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1660 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660.