GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    376%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

276% higher gaming performance.
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

The GeForce RTX 2060 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (2 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders1920vs960
Compute Units30vs5
Core clock1365 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs48vs24
TMUs120vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GTX 660
TDP160 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    123
  • GeForce GTX 660
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    105
  • GeForce GTX 660
    25

FPS (higher is better)