NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2520MHz vs 1785MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

14976 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +1542%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +575%

36549

GeForce GTX 1660

5414

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +1541%

12921

GeForce GTX 1660

787

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +1041%

1278

GeForce GTX 1660

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +670%

185

GeForce GTX 1660

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +495%

280

GeForce GTX 1660

47

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +316%

304

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +365%

186

GeForce GTX 1660

40

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +178%

203

GeForce GTX 1660

73

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +134%

213

GeForce GTX 1660

91

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +234%

167

GeForce GTX 1660

50

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +255%

185

GeForce GTX 1660

52

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +19%

186

GeForce GTX 1660

156

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1530 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

22

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

1408

512

TMUs

88

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

-

128

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

TU116

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

12 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

120W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

7.5

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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