GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Oct 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1060 6 GB GDDR5X

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-300-A1)vsGP104 ()
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders1408vs1280
Compute Units22vs10
Core clock1530 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs88vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5X
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1001 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERGeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
TDP125 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date29 Oct 2019vsUNRELEASED

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    85.68 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    82.03 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    157.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    136.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
    5020.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X
    4375.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better