GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
CORE STATE
TU116
VRAM
6 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1785 MHz
TDP
120 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
VS
GEFORCE
GeForce GTX 960M
CORE STATE
GM107
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1176 MHz
TDP
75 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Maxwell
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2015
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 1660
GTX 960M
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
640
-54.5%
Shaders
1,408
640
-54.5%
TMUs
88
40
-54.5%
ROPs
48
16
-66.7%
SM Count
22
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Clocks
Base Clock
1530 MHz
1097 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1176 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1253 MHz
5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
4,096
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
192.1 GB/s
80.19 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
18.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
47.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.027 TFLOPS
1.505 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
47.04 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
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Power
TDP
120 W
75 W
TDP (W)
120
75
-37.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
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Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
Turing
Maxwell
GPU Name
TU116
GM107
Generation
GeForce 16
GeForce 900M
Process Size
12 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6,600 million
1,870 million
Die Size
284 mm²
148 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
23.2M / mm²
12.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.4
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
7.5
5.0
Shader Model
6.8
6.7 (5.1)
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
229 mm
9 inches
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Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
219 USD
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Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 10
GeForce 800M
Successor
GeForce 20
GeForce 10 Mobile