GeForce GTX 1660: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GeForce GTX 1660 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.28% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1660 sales 14 March 2019 at a recommended price of $219 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 6 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 120 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 1660: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking181
Place by popularity57
Cost-effectiveness evaluation49.76
Power efficiency18.48of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU116
Market segmentDesktop
Release date14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$219 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 1660's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1408of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1530 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1785 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors6,600 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology12 nmof 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate157.1of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power5.027 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs48of 192 (GA100)
TMUs88of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 1660 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length229 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1660: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2001 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth192.1 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1660. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1660, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131
CUDA7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 1660. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 1660 30.28

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GTX 1660 11680

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

GTX 1660 71229

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

GTX 1660 21131

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

GTX 1660 14055

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 1660 80889

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

GTX 1660 57812

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

GTX 1660 524782

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GTX 1660 56067

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

GTX 1660 60172

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 medical-01

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SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

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GTX 1660 134

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1660 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

Full HD85
1440p50
4K29

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 71

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 59
Battlefield 5 95−100
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 73
Cyberpunk 2077 58
Far Cry 5 65−70
Far Cry New Dawn 75−80
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
Hitman 3 69
Horizon Zero Dawn 306
Metro Exodus 144
Red Dead Redemption 2 112
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 100−110
Watch Dogs: Legion 227

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 123
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 42
Battlefield 5 95−100
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 67
Cyberpunk 2077 47
Far Cry 5 65−70
Far Cry New Dawn 75−80
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
Hitman 3 67
Horizon Zero Dawn 287
Metro Exodus 113
Red Dead Redemption 2 79
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 110
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 60−65
Watch Dogs: Legion 214

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 65−70
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 37
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 49
Cyberpunk 2077 40
Far Cry 5 65−70
Forza Horizon 4 98
Hitman 3 59
Horizon Zero Dawn 93
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 95
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 57
Watch Dogs: Legion 29

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 81

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 55−60
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 34
Cyberpunk 2077 24
Far Cry 5 35−40
Forza Horizon 4 170−180
Hitman 3 39
Horizon Zero Dawn 67
Metro Exodus 59
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 67
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 40−45
Watch Dogs: Legion 187

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 53

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 30−33
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27
Hitman 3 21
Horizon Zero Dawn 63
Metro Exodus 44
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 35

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 18−20
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 15
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 17
Cyberpunk 2077 10
Far Cry 5 16−18
Forza Horizon 4 50
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 36
Watch Dogs: Legion 12

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 26

Closest competitors

GeForce GTX 1660's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


Arc A750 101.98
GeForce GTX 1660 100
Arc A580 99.41
L4 98.61
RTX A1000 98.35

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 1660 is Radeon RX 5600 OEM, which is faster by 3% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce GTX 1660:

GeForce GTX 1660 100
Fiji 93.56

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended processors

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Community ratings

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