GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs GTX 660 OEM

Place in the ranking	731	34
Place by popularity	not in top-100	14
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	83.06
Power efficiency	1.79	25.69
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GK104	AD106
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	22 August 2012 (12 years ago)	18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1152	4352
Core clock speed	823 MHz	2310 MHz
Boost clock speed	888 MHz	2535 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	160 Watt
Texture fill rate	85.25	344.8
Floating-point processing power	2.046 TFLOPS	22.06 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	96	136
Tensor Cores	no data	136
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	34

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Length	241 mm	240 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	179.2 GB/s	288.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	+	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	3.0	8.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	3.36	59.36
Recency	22 August 2012	18 May 2023
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	160 Watt

GTX 660 OEM has 23.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 4060 Ti, on the other hand, has a 1666.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 660 OEM in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.