GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 Ti (23/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GeForce

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti

23/100
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[ WINNER ]
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce

GeForce RTX 4090

89/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 44.0 Poor WINNER 43.0 Poor
Gaming 20.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 16654 72432
Night Raid 76387 195813
Port Royal 1649 26127
Solar Bay 20515 187525
Time Spy 6339 36299
Wild Life Extreme 13006 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 74 255
1080p Ultra 57 217
1440p Ultra 41 177
4K Ultra 21 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 58473524 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 140957130 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 46412510 22620814366
Far Cry 6 73634922 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 89514424 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 45352414 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 49402615 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 78755025 302284222118
The Witcher 3 88704624 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 18914 75599
Face Detection (HP) 10867 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 4272 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 6435 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 9635 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 3301 6349
Object Detection (SP) 5600 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 41061 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 83427 601428
Text Classification (SP) 1737 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 124.8 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 3.48 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 69.4 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 0.92 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.52 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 2.67 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9094.4 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 355.9 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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) $279 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 9500or above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released February 22, 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 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1500 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1770 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 128
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 1536 16384
Tensor Cores No 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 192-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 103 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 51 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 769 1303
GPU Compute 5020 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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 120 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 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 85 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 170 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

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

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