GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 125 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 960

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 120 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

1,278

162

geekbench_opencl

62,664

18,751

geekbench_vulkan

59,933

20,495

passmark_directx_10

65

N/A

passmark_directx_11

104

N/A

passmark_directx_12

50

N/A

passmark_directx_9

189

N/A

passmark_g2d

805

N/A

passmark_g3d

12,699

N/A

passmark_gpu_compute

5,076

N/A

geekbench_metal

N/A

8,773

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 1660 SUPER

GTX 960

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,408

1,024 -27.3%

Shaders

1,408

1,024 -27.3%

TMUs

88

64 -27.3%

ROPs

48

32 -33.3%

SM Count

22

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Clocks

Base Clock

1530 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

6 GB

2 GB

VRAM (MB)

6,144

2,048 -66.7%

Memory Type

GDDR6

GDDR5

Memory Bus

192 bit

128 bit

Bandwidth

336.0 GB/s

112.2 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1536 KB

1024 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

37.70 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

5.027 TFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

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Power

TDP

125 W

120 W

TDP (W)

125

120 -4.0%

Suggested PSU

300 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Turing

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

TU116

GM206

Generation

GeForce 16

GeForce 900

Process Size

12 nm

28 nm

Transistors

6,600 million

2,940 million

Die Size

284 mm²

228 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

23.2M / mm²

12.9M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

7.5

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

229 mm 9 inches

241 mm 9.5 inches

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

229 USD

199 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 10

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 20

GeForce 10

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