NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Linux Benchmarks

Lastly are some of the metrics over the course of all the benchmarks tested. The ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 Phoenix Fan Edition was quiet and under all this load it had a minimum temperature of 32 degrees with an average of 58 degrees and a peak of 78 degrees.

Here is a look at the AC system power consumption for the total system power draw with the each of the graphics cards during testing. The GeForce GTX 1660 was only consuming Watts more than the Radeon RX 560 while delivering much better performance. In fact, the peak power draw of the GeForce GTX 1660 was 26 Watts lower than even the GeForce GTX 960 or a peak 12 Watts lower than the GTX 1060. The AC power draw average with the GTX 1660 was just 126 Watts compared to 215 Watts with the Sapphire Radeon RX 590.

The harmonic mean is also provided by the Phoronix Test Suite for all the FPS tests on the graphics cards under test. The GeForce GTX 1660 overall was performing right in the middle between the Radeon RX 580 and RX 590 when looking at the high level view of the performance. Keep in mind though that particularly if using Radeon hardware with newer Vulkan games and using the RADV driver, that's where the NVIDIA Linux driver performance tended to have a much better outcome.

Overall though the GeForce GTX 1660 is an interesting graphics card for just above $220 USD for frequently competing or even exceeding the Radeon RX 590 while at much lower power consumption.