GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GTX 1660
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1785MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (120W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3920
GeForce GTX 1660
+28%
5027
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
3646
GeForce GTX 1660
+49%
5444
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
1683
GeForce GTX 1660
+46%
2465
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
305
GeForce GTX 1660
+131%
705
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
77
GeForce GTX 1660
+45%
112
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
15
GeForce GTX 1660
+60%
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
30
GeForce GTX 1660
+56%
47
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
40
GeForce GTX 1660
+82%
73
GTA 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
42
GeForce GTX 1660
+19%
50
GTA 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
44
GeForce GTX 1660
+18%
52
GTA 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
98
GeForce GTX 1660
+59%
156
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2019
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 16
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1530 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1785 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2001 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
192.1GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
22
1664
Shading Units
1408
104
TMUs
88
56
ROPs
48
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.68 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.05 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.027 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
120W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
TU116
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
TU116-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
6.6 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
284 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
7.5
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
