NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1785MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (125W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

4480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +304%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

5982

GeForce RTX 3070 +127%

13637

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

26

GeForce RTX 3070 +103%

53

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

52

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

95

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

79

GeForce RTX 3070 +82%

144

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

41

GeForce RTX 3070 +97%

81

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

78

GeForce RTX 3070 +80%

141

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

97

GeForce RTX 3070 +93%

188

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

60

GeForce RTX 3070 +15%

69

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

76

GeForce RTX 3070 +38%

105

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +11%

178

GeForce RTX 3070

159

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

5888

88

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

GA104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

12 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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