NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 15 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 6656.8x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 110 nm
  • 24x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2x 128 MB
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 vs 12 August 2004
Core clock speed 1530 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s vs 2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 2x 128 MB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual
PassMark - G3D Mark 12712
PassMark - G2D Mark 804
Geekbench - OpenCL 62641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 187.131
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2548.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 15.882
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 901.388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 17812
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1278

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Dual

Essentials

Architecture Turing Curie
Code name TU116 NV43 A2
Launch date 29 Oct 2019 12 August 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 223 not rated
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1785 MHz
Core clock speed 1530 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 110 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.027 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1408
Pixel fill rate 85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 157.1 GTexel/s 2x 3.6 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt
Transistor count 6600 million 146 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 9 inches (229 mm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0c
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 336.0 GB/s 2x 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2x 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR3
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz