NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 290W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 72% (1770MHz vs 1032MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 144.2GB/s)

5184 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP +997%

21.75 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 6144 SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

960

Shading Units

6144

80

TMUs

192

24

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

169.9 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

339.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

21.75 TFLOPS

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

21.75 TFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

339.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

290W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

GA104

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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