GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 1500 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 98304 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is just a bit (approximately 20%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23520 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is a better choice, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 288 (0%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.