GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    160%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

70 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 Ti .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 60% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

The GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1280vs1344
Compute Units10vs7
Core clock1404 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs48vs24
TMUs80vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060 MobileGeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP80 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date15 Aug 2016vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    14100
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    8790

Points (higher is better)