GeForce GTX 1660 vs GTS 450 Rev. 2

Place in performance ranking	626	171
Place by popularity	not in top-100	43
Value for money	no data	25.02
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	GF116	Turing TU116
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	15 March 2011 (13 years ago)	14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$219
Current price	no data	$252 (1.2x MSRP)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	192	1408
Core clock speed	783 MHz	1530 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1785 MHz
Number of transistors	1,170 million	6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	25.06	157.1
Floating-point performance	601.3 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	210 mm	229 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	3608 MHz	8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.73 GB/s	192.1 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI	+	+

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.1	7.5

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	12−14 −617%	86 +617%
1440p	6−7 −700%	48 +700%
4K	4−5 −600%	28 +600%

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	4.38	30.18
Recency	15 March 2011	14 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	106 Watt	120 Watt