GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 44.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 20.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 16654 87569
Night Raid 76387 206648
Port Royal 1649 38202
Solar Bay 20515 236689
Time Spy 6339 46873
Wild Life Extreme 13006 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 74 299
1080p Ultra 57 254
1440p Ultra 41 207
4K Ultra 21 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 58473524 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 140957130 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 46412510 26123316077
Far Cry 6 73634922 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 89514424 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 45352414 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 49402615 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 78755025 329302238128
The Witcher 3 88704624 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 18914 85572
Face Detection (HP) 10867 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4272 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 6435 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9635 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 3301 8184
Object Detection (SP) 5600 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 41061 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 83427 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1737 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 124.8 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.48 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 69.4 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.92 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.52 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9094.4 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 355.9 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU116 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $279 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released February 22, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1500 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 1536 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 103 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 769 1410
GPU Compute 5020 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 284 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 120 W 575 W
Transistor Count 6 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 85 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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