GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Feb 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 15 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-400-A1)vsGP106 (N17E-G1-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs16 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders1536vs1280
Compute Units24vs10
Core clock1500 MHzvs1404 MHz
ROPs48vs48
TMUs96vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
12000 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
TDP120 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date22 Feb 2019vs15 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    84.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    67.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    169.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    112.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    288.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    5437.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
    3594.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better