Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus
vs
GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus and the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and has 1536 texture shaders and 24 execution units.

GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, which has 1280 shaders and 10 execution units.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus GPU GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
TU116-400-A1 GPU Chip GP106-400-A1
Turing Architecture Pascal
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 10
1536 Shader 1280
48 Render Output Units 48
96 Texture Units 80
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has 6 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 288 GB/s.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G can access 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 199 GB/s.

6 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 2.079 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.3 Gbps
288 GB/s Memory bandwidth 199 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus clocks in the base with up to 1.500 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G is 1.620 GHz.

1.500 GHz Base Clock 1.620 GHz
1.770 GHz Boost Clock 1.873 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.85 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 120 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

120 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
95 °C Tjunction max 94 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus has a total of 1 Axial fans.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 3 screens can be connected to the Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G supports a maximum of 4 screens.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
1x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED GIGABYTE RGB Fusion

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 No
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus is 168 mm long, 126 mm high and -- wide.

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G is 281 mm long, 137 mm high and 59 mm wide.

168 mm Length 281 mm
126 mm Height 137 mm
-- Width 59 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1660 TI Pegasus was released in Q1/2019 at a price of 279 $ (Reference).

The GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G was introduced in Q3/2016 at a price of 249 $ (Reference).

NE6166T018J9-161F Part-no GV-N1060XTREME-6GD
Q1/2019 Release date Q3/2016
279 $ (Reference) Launch Price 249 $ (Reference)
12 nm Structure size 16 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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