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
PG506-232
CORE STATE
GA100
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1440 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
3072 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
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
PG506-232
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,408
3,584
+154.5%
Shaders
1,408
3,584
+154.5%
TMUs
88
224
+154.5%
ROPs
48
96
+100.0%
SM Count
22
56
+154.5%
Clocks
Base Clock
1530 MHz
930 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1440 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
8 Gbps effective
1215 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
6 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
6,144
24,576
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
192 bit
3072 bit
Bandwidth
192.1 GB/s
933.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
24 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
5.027 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
120 W
165 W
TDP (W)
120
165
+37.5%
Suggested PSU
300 W
450 W
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
Turing
Ampere
GPU Name
TU116
GA100
Generation
GeForce 16
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
12 nm
7 nm
Transistors
6,600 million
54,200 million
Die Size
284 mm²
826 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
23.2M / mm²
65.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_1)
—
OpenGL
4.6
—
Vulkan
1.4
—
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
7.5
8.0
Shader Model
6.8
—
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
Dual-slot
Length
229 mm
9 inches
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Launch Price
219 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 10
Tesla Turing
Successor
GeForce 20
Server Ada