GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages
Lower TDP (125W vs 145W)
GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 40% (2497MHz vs 1785MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
5027
GeForce RTX 5060
+281%
19180
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
6048
GeForce RTX 5060
+127%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
2792
GeForce RTX 5060
+131%
6452
Graphics Card
Oct 2019
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 16
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1530 MHz
Base Clock
2280 MHz
1785 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
336.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
22
SM Count
30
1408
Shading Units
3840
88
TMUs
120
48
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.68 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
157.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
10.05 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
5.027 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
157.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
125W
TDP
145W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
TU116
GPU Name
GB206
TU116-300-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-250-A1
Turing
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.6 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
284 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
7.5
CUDA
12.0
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
