NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1785MHz vs 1709MHz)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +14%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

4202

GeForce GTX 1660 +28%

5414

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

9

GeForce GTX 1660 +166%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

32

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

27

GeForce GTX 1660 +48%

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

50

GeForce GTX 1660 +46%

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

74

GeForce GTX 1660 +22%

91

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

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GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU116

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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