NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +84%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 16

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

1600

88

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Cypress

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

7.5

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.0

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