GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (22/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 43.0 Poor
Gaming 19.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 16189 72432
Night Raid 74735 195813
Port Royal 1547 26127
Solar Bay 19265 187525
Time Spy 6042 36299
Wild Life Extreme 12334 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 7.5 8.9
DLSS No DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 71 255
1080p Ultra 55 217
1440p Ultra 40 177
4K Ultra 20 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 55443119 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 133936829 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 44402211 22620814366
Far Cry 6 70624624 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 86514325 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 41342612 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 46362613 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 77714723 302284222118
The Witcher 3 83654726 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 18021 75599
Face Detection (HP) 9830 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4278 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 5856 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9561 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 3286 6349
Object Detection (SP) 5151 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 36109 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 73708 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1858 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 122.5 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.33 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 68.6 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.86 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.21 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.56 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8476.3 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 273.3 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 5600 XT
Architecture Turing Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename TU116 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released October 29, 2019 September 20, 2022
Segment Entry-level High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1530 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1785 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 1408 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 192-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 104 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 50 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 807 1303
GPU Compute 5033 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 284 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 125 W 450 W
Transistor Count 6 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 21.13 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 86 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 157 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce RTX 4090
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-02(TEST) Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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