GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile (27/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 56.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 18.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 14839 87569
Night Raid 60345 206648
Port Royal 1507 38202
Solar Bay 18008 236689
Time Spy 5596 46873
Wild Life Extreme 11434 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 7.5 12.0
DLSS No DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4 2.1b
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing No Yes
Vulkan 1.2 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 65 299
1080p Ultra 51 254
1440p Ultra 36 207
4K Ultra 19 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 49442917 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 122876227 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 4337239 26123316077
Far Cry 6 66604423 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 80473822 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 37292212 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 43322314 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 71654220 329302238128
The Witcher 3 76624223 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 15599 85572
Face Detection (HP) 7909 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 3378 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 4732 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 8716 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 1912 8184
Object Detection (SP) 4195 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 35887 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 70176 687080
Text Classification (SP) 1591 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 119.1 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.28 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 64.8 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.88 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.37 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.58 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8599.6 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 300.1 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Architecture Turing Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename TU116 (N18E-G0) GB202-300
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 10300Hor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released April 23, 2019 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $1999

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1455 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1590 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 64KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1536KB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores No 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 176
Shading Units 1536 21760
Tensor Cores No 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 87 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 39 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 473 1410
GPU Compute 3652 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 284 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 12 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 80 W 575 W
Transistor Count 6.6 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 23.24 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 76 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 153 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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