GeForce GTX 1660
[ GEFORCE ] Graphics Cards

GeForce GTX 1660

Overall Score
21/100
GRADE D · Poor
Key Technical Specifications
Graphics (GPU) Turing
[ EXPERT VERDICT · SUMMARY ]

GeForce GTX 1660 is an engineering-tested graphics cards achieving an overall rating of 21/100. It is positioned for balanced everyday compute and power efficiency.

Benchmark Performance Scores

Normalized 0–100 Scale
Efficiency
44/100
Rating: Poor
Gaming
18/100
Rating: Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Fire Strike 14207
Night Raid 66328
Port Royal 1455
Solar Bay 18104
Time Spy 5443
Wild Life Extreme 10947

API

API specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
CUDA 7.5
DLSS No
DirectX 12
DisplayPort 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Ray Tracing No
Vulkan 1.3

Games

Games specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
1080p High 64
1080p Ultra 49
1440p Ultra 35
4K Ultra 18
CoD: Modern Warfare III 51422617
Counter-Strike 2 119836025
Cyberpunk 2077 4036229
Far Cry 6 66564421
Forza Horizon 5 81453624
Ghost of Tsushima 37302011
Hogwarts Legacy 42322312
Margin of Error Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 68624320
The Witcher 3 74594121

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Backend DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 16173
Face Detection (HP) 8691
Framework ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3814
Image Segmentation (HP) 4931
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8081
Machine Translation (HP) 2227
Object Detection (SP) 4384
Pose Estimation (Q) 33497
Style Transfer (SP) 72011
Text Classification (SP) 1586

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
API OpenCL
Background Blur 107.7 img/sec
Edge Detection 2.61 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 58.6 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.07 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8078.5 FPS
Stereo Matching 301.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT
Architecture Turing
Build Discrete
Case Desktop
GPU Codename TU116
Launch price (MSRP) $219
Purpose Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above
Released March 14, 2019
Segment Entry-level
Vendor Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Base Clock 1530 MHz
Boost Clock 1785 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48
Shading Units 1408
Tensor Cores No
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88

Memory

Memory specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Bus 192-bit
ECC No
Effective Memory Speed 8000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2001 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR5

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
DirectX 11 79 FPS
DirectX 12 49 FPS
G2D Mark 777
GPU Compute 4928 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Die Size 284 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC
TGP 120 W
Transistor Count 6 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications for GeForce GTX 1660
Specification Value
Pixel Fill Rate 86 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 157 GTexel/s

Strengths & Limitations

Key Advantages

  • Comprehensive positive benchmark metrics recorded.

Key Considerations

  • No major hardware limitations flagged during benchmark run.

Direct Competitors & Alternatives

Methodology, Provenance & Verification

Score version 2026.1 · Data verified 2026-08-26 · Source: official manufacturer datasheets and standardized reproducible benchmark suites (Geekbench 6, Cinebench R24, 3DMark).

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