GeForce RTX 4060 vs GTX 1660 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 4 years and 4 months older GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
6 GB GDDR6
41.6
(Average)
Value Index
25.7
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1660 Ti over RTX 4060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Performs significantly better (up to 80%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.8x higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 5.4 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 68% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 69 vs 41 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 24 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
128
78
66
47
89
51
44
24
The Witcher 3
143
117
82
44
88
70
46
24
Counter-Strike 2
208
157
111
58
140
95
71
30
Far Cry 6
105
98
76
45
73
63
49
22
Hogwarts Legacy
78
65
47
26
49
40
26
15
CoD: Modern Warfare III
98
90
64
43
58
47
35
24
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
45
27
45
35
24
14
Cyberpunk 2077
82
75
43
22
46
41
25
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
128
119
85
46
78
75
50
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 74
1080p Ultra 96 57
1440p Ultra 69 41
4K Ultra 40 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4060 +80%
10683
Time Spy 10615 6339
Solar Bay 49340 20515
Port Royal 6054 1649
Fire Strike 28540 16654
Wild Life Extreme 20610 13006
Night Raid 121368 76387
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4060 +47%
106633
72340
Background Blur 186.9 img/sec 124.8 img/sec
Face Detection 112.7 img/sec 69.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.92 Gpixels/sec 2.67 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.16 Gpixels/sec 3.48 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.94 Gpixels/sec 3.52 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.34 Gpixels/sec 0.92 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 355.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14935.1 FPS 9094.4 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4060 +202%
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4060 +55%
19485
12581
G2D Mark 1036 769
DirectX 11 174 FPS 103 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 51 FPS
GPU Compute 9150 Ops/s 5020 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 28684 & 14541 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4060 +295%
3132.26
792.56
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2092 & 795 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4060 +66%
17857
10788
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4060 +234%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4060 +87%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 7696 4272
Image Segmentation (HP) 13706 6435
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23289 9635
Face Detection (HP) 31126 10867
Pose Estimation (Q) 78361 41061
Text Classification (SP) 3315 1737
Machine Translation (HP) 3491 3301
Object Detection (SP) 9386 5600
Depth Estimation (Q) 36778 18914
Style Transfer (SP) 148120 83427
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and GTX 1660 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 18, 2023 February 22, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $279
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 TU116
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700 XT - Radeon RX 5600 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i5 9500 or above
Desktop GPU rating (54th and 73rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1830 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 2460 MHz 1770 MHz
Shading Units 3072 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 24
Tensor Cores 96 No
Ray-tracing Cores 24 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 24MB shared 1536KB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118 GPixel/s 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236 GTexel/s 170 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4060 +180%
15.1 TFLOPS
5.4 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 115 W 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 284 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 6 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 21.13 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 12000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s
288 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 3 No
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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