GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Feb 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

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 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1660 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameTU116 (TU116-400-A1)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders1536vs1344
Compute Units24vs7
Core clock1500 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs48vs24
TMUs96vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
12000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1660 TiGeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP120 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date22 Feb 2019vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    84.96 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    169.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    288.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
    5437.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better