NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (125W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER +85%

5.027 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Dec 2010

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

1375 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

22

SM Count

-

1408

Shading Units

1536

88

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

125W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

Cayman

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

Turing

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

389 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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